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Some Writing Posts.
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25 commandments for journalists
A Guardian editor shares a "manifesto for the simple scribe" which includes some excellent advice
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Poetry in the comments
Literally. Somewhere my past and present self are celebrating
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Throwing it all out (there)
In an effort to tie the various thoughts together in hopes that the assembled pile will resemble more than a C-grade university media theory paper, I’ve created a new strand for this little site: Note from an Undefined Business.
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Typewriter
A simple typewriter-emulator that comes the closest yet to Khoi Vinh's Blockwriter idea
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How to write with style
Kurt Vonnegut wrote 7 or 8 tips one should consider
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Nielsen says don't avoid passive writing
Realizing the positively ironic nature of the headline amuses me.
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Write articles not blogs
Jakob Nielsen offers some good advice on how to be an expert.
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Google killed the clever news headline
Headline style has been slowly altered by the search agents scouring the digital world.
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Good writing advice
Some good, and simple, advice about writing; put the ending first.
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The Elements of (Newspaper) Blogging
The editor of Grenboro’s News & Record posts some smart standards and practices for its blogging journalists.
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Great writing in Steven Johnson profile
Written in the second person (difficult to pull off) the intro sucks you into an enagaging profile review of the author and his work.
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What to do about writer’s block
The return of the (content as) king.
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Testing all copy editors
The Toronto Star’s ombusman Nitpicker’s Quiz tests ones editing skills.
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The computer as novelist
A New York Times essay wonders whether computers will ever be able to write novels as good as we can.
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Abbreviations and poetry
Finally, some clarity from the W3C on the use of abbr as summarized by Jesper Tverskov (via Anne van Kesteren.)
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Why we write for the Web
Just spent sometime reading two essays, one by Josh Allen and the other by Paul Ford. Both are contemporaries in terms of age (as most us doing this are) and attitude toward the Web, and both were writing on why they write for this medium. Suffice it to say, I agree, and that, in turn, got me thinking about this site’s whole redesign
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Hypertext writing
Mark Bernstein remains, even amongst Webheads, a relatively unkown person and that is shame. Those that recognize it generally do so because of his work with Eastgate. But he is also one of the few people who have been serioulsy advocating hypertext — which, ironically enough, seems to be a dying artform on the Web.
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“Hip” Toronto and bad writing
Funny how these themes emerge. Today, writing.
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Hechtman a hostage; Kandahar; reputation managers; writing well
Bunch of stuff today that has been collecting over the past few days:
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Book Review: Concrete Forest
A review, first published in Mindjack, of a collection of urban Canadian fiction.
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Tele-Hell
Tethered to the phones, telemarketer's struggle to sell and survive.
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