Category Archives: Writing

Blogging 101: Conducting interviews for media

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 3/10/2010
A good friend of mine from the FLOSS community is going to be doing some interviews for his blog at an upcoming conference, and asked for a few tips on interviewing. Interviewing is not a science, but an art: And art requires practice. I don't claim to be the world's best interviewer: Most of the interviews [...]
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Writing professionally: Do you really want to?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/23/2010
I get a lot of emails from a friends, colleagues, acquaintances, or random strangers asking me how to get started writing. Since the question comes up a lot, I thought it might be worth a post here. Maybe it will help some of the people who haven't asked yet, or at least it'll give me [...]
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Blogging 101: Take a Tip from Newswriting with the Five W's

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/16/2010
Who? When? Why? What? Where? How? If you don't answer those questions, why bother blogging at all? The "Five W's" as they're often called (and one H) are drilled into every journalism student as crucial for news-writing. Who is involved? When did it happen? Where did it happen? How and why did it happen? And, for [...]
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Google's Meaning of Open: Is It Yours?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/22/2009
Google has made some headlines recently about its stance on privacy. This week the company is taliking about what "open" means to Google. Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice president of product management for Google, says that "open will win" across the Internet and "then cascade across many walks of life." It might be a good idea [...]
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Vim 401: Extending Vim and More

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/12/2009
Now that you've learned your way around Vim, I wanted to focus the last piece in the series on extending Vim with scripts and plugins, and some other features that users should be aware of. If you've been following this series so far, you know how to move around in Vim, setting up mappings and abbreviations, [...]
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It goes to 100! openSUSE Weekly News hits triple digits

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/7/2009
Some congratulations are in order -- openSUSE Weekly News has topped 100 issues! A newsletter is very vital for any community project, and the openSUSE Weekly News has been providing a very valuable service for the openSUSE Project since November 19, 2007. The first issue was put out by Francis Giannaros, who got the ball rolling, [...]
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/usr/bin/links -date="December 6, 2009"

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/6/2009
Some interesting stuff around the Web on writing, naming projects, beer, and Google. I'll leave it to the reader to decide which of those topics is most interesting... Application Naming — I couldn't possibly agree with the author more. I could have written the same thing. As a matter of fact, I think I have written [...]
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