Archives for December 2006
Embracing Coffee & Complexity… and what does this have to do with media?
For the last decade or so, I’ve taken my coffee the same way every morning: pre-ground at Peet’s coffee and then made with boiling water in a big French press. Then, last week I bought a snazzy Capresso drip coffee maker with a gold filter and a timer, as well as an equally snazzy […]
Answering Tom Hespos with 5 Things About Myself
I’ve been called out by my friend Tom Hespos to join a game happening in the blogosphere right now in which the blogger shares five non-obvious things about him or herself… and I should probably do this in a hurry since I have a call with Tom tomorrow morning.
Tom, I’m not easily embarrassed and I […]
Good Writers Throw Fastballs– more against cliche in online writing
In the comments to my last post, my friend Joseph Carrabis (a much more dilligent blogger than me) mentions that at a recent academic conference some colleagues speculated that because there is so much more writing these days the general quality of the writing would go up.
Beyond fallacious reasoning, this is an dangerous thing […]
Gawker’s List of Blog-Media Cliches and more online writing rules…
My friend Benjamin pointed me in the direction of this list of unforgiveable blog cliches from Gawker that is a must-read for any blogger or anybody writing online.
But the Gawker list is only a good place to start. Since the advent of email, blogs SMS and instant messengers, we have tranformed into a more writerly […]
