Comments on: Gawker’s List of Blog-Media Cliches and more online writing rules…

By: Brad Berens

Brad Berens — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:19:12 +0000

For the person who might get all the way to Diane’s comments and have them make no sense, she pointed out that I had misspelled “unforgivable” in the original blog post ( ), a mistake that I have rectified.

By: Diane Gordon

Diane Gordon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:46:23 +0000

whoopsies, just realized this is two years old.

By: Diane Gordon

Diane Gordon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:45:27 +0000

Brad, yo. – is this a joke…”unforgiveable” wtf?, lol, etc. etc. – if somebody is going to be presumptuous enough to tell other people what not to write in blogs, one hopes that person can spell. Either it’s a joke, or it proves the point that bloggers are bunch of illiterate troglodytes. The “unforgiveable” list isn’t that bad, though. But I would take exception to the use of “yo” and “oy,” unless these words wouldn’t normally come out of one’s mouth, in which case, don’t use ‘em. I do. Depends on the audience, too.

By: Tom Hespos

Tom Hespos — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:51:28 +0000

Gawker forgot a few:

1) [Unsightly thing][Reference to eye bleach] – It’s not even funny on Fark anymore.

2) References to “the Internets.” This joke needs to be dragged out back and shot.

3) Done-to-death Simpsons quotes, especially:

a) “Ze goggles! Zey do nossing!”
b) “Mmmmm…[insert desirable object here]”
c) “My cat’s breath smells like cat food.”

-TFH

By: Joseph Carrabis

Joseph Carrabis — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:07:20 +0000

As always, you are my teacher in these things. Interestingly enough, I was at a conference yesterday about blogging. The conference had a fairly heavy academic slant. The conjecture of some of the professors was that online writing (blogging, emails, IMs, etc.) was going to improve people’s writing skills simply because these individuals would be writing more often and for public display.
I was tempted to offer my own writings as an example of the contrary…