Tag Archives: Writing

Writing professionally: Do you really want to?

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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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 [...]
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