Tag Archives: Writing
A New Role in Journalism?
TechDirt points to a discussion about today's newsroom and the idea a new role in a newsroom: Curators. That is, someone who would help readers by sorting, organizing, verifying, and editing information that's already on the Web or in the media.
Traditional journalists might look down on this, as journalism programs really focus hot and heavy [...]
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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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Getting its and it's right
If I had a penny for every time someone confuses its and it's, just on the Internet, I would be ridiculously rich. This is probably, in part, because the rule is a bit counterintuitive. The reflex for most writers is to affix an 's to something to make it possessive.
You'd normally say something like [...]
Wait until you feel like writing
And you'll never get anything written. Well, very little, anyway.
Some days you wake up and feel like cranking out words like there's no tomorrow. You don't want to write, you need to write. You've got something to say and until you say it, you're going to be distracted until it gets done. This can be [...]
Writing professionally: Do you really want to?