Archives for the 'Online Writing' Category
Did I blow it? Is it ever OK to analogize autism?
I’m hoping for reader feedback on this one.
Today’s iMedia Connection cover story is an interview that I conducted with Sean Finnegan, newly-minted CEO of OmniCom’s OMG worldwide digital unit and a brilliant guy.
During that conversation, Sean said this:
The art of a brand relationship is much like the one you and I could have as friends: [...]
Check out the launch of Copywriting.com
Early plug for Miguel Alvarez’s new site, www.copywriting.com, which I’ll be diving into as soon as I find some time. It’s just-launched, but Miguel is a smart cookie and I’ll look forward to seeing what he has to say. Miguel, congrats!
I’ll Call it “Mini Meme” (with a note about Shakespeare)
I’m writing this from iMedia’s Driving Interactive Summit on interactive auto marketing in Newport, CA. Yesterday, during the opening panel I posed a question about how big auto makers can and should deal with negative user-generated content. I phrased it something like this: “When you’re dealing with ordinary folks online, sometimes they love you and [...]
“Word Wise” is a handy blog about online writing
I care and write about online writing a fair amount, but I’m far from the only one. Recently, I stumbled across Dan Santow’s Word Wise blog, which is pragmatic and useful. Dan, good work! Please post more often.
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 [...]
