Archives for the 'Online Writing' Category
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 [...]
Gawker’s List of Blog-Media Cliches and more online writing rules…
My friend Benjamin pointed me in the direction of this list of unforgivable 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 [...]
