From The Financial Times, Seven categories of rot that appeal to big cheeses Last week, I came across […]
Why We Lie
Tell Me a Story
Truth, naked and cold, had been turned away from every door in the village. Her nakedness frightened the […]
Come Whisper in My Ear, Words I Want to Hear
I don’t know how I got so lucky, but suddenly I find myself bombarded with rules about how […]
Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location
New York Times on the semicolon “When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of […]
poetic spam
poeticspam, originally uploaded by Box and Arrow. prolonged effusion of small talk. How I wished sleep would silence […]
Has blogging affected your professional life, and how?
Recently I had a beer with Josh Porter, and he mentioned to me how something I said had […]
LinkedIn: Answers: Has blogging affected your professional life, and how?
Okay, more asking questions on LinkedIn time. This time it’s “Has blogging affected your professional life, and how? […]
Graphing Social: Lance from Rock You
I missed the second talk, see http://www.geekdaily.org for jim’s write up. also, slides: Now, Lance; Rock you are […]
Amusing Tales of Product Managers
From a hilarious David Pogue column (read the whole thing for more funny anecdotes) We reviewers aren’t supposed […]
You Can’t Handle the Truth
From Google blogger slams Michael Moore’s Sicko Turner, writing in Google’s new Health Advertising Blog, which was officially […]
swimming metaphor
Sometimes you dive into a pool, and you are going down down down and it’s deep and you […]
Some rooms of one’s own
Royal Carriage Inn goes on my list of places I want to go hide to write. Cheap, warm, […]
You say you want a revolution
I’m surprised how often I see the word “versus” in email. Photoshop vs. illustrator, personas vs. ethnography, email […]
Elements of <insert style here>
In honor of this week’s essay in B&A on Strunk and White, I offer up this proof of […]
write real good
I’ve been writng and editing a bit lately, and I have recalled three key concepts from my book […]
open ended questions
How do I interview people (for the press, not for jobs)? | Ask MetaFilter is just a terrific […]
opposites are stupid
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The amorality of Web 2.0 “I’m all for blogs and blogging. (I’m writing […]
debate
Kerry has a plan, Bush has a strategy, I have a lingering sense of unease. This is an […]
useful style guide
This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist.
writing
I’m writing today. mouf mouf mouf. I forgot what a wrestling job it is. here I am: I […]
wordsmithy
I love writing, excellent craftful writing. Often my favorite articles in New Yorker are on the most banal […]
quote
Famous Quotes – Sir Winston Churchill “Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a […]
Speaking of having a voice…
Check out the opening of this newsletter from my ISP, Dreamhost. You can’t accuse them of not having a voice…
“0. Introduction.
I think every February newsletter I end up either talking about what a
short month it was and how it only makes sense that the newsletter is
going to be short, or else how it’s my birthday in four days, and my
birthday is the best.
This time I’m going with birthday.
My birthday is the best! It’s March fourth! Which is the only date
that’s a command! And it used to be the date of the U.S. presidential
inaugaration! And it’s a tricky birthday too because it sneaks up on
you because February is so short (now I’ve covered both topics!)..
always around February 25th or so I’m like “my birthday is in like two
weeks or something” and then one second later I’m all “I MEAN ONE!”
The other great thing about my birthday is PRESENTS. I can’t really
think of anything I want or need, but I know I’m sure as sure going to
take everything I can get! In fact, I think the theme for this
newsletter is going to be “presents for Josh”. This may just be the best
newsletter ever.
I would like to stress the purpose of this newsletter is to inform
Happy DreamHost customers about important DreamHost going ons.”
I’ll include the whole thing in the “more” section. Pretty funny. This may be why I keep forgiving them, despite the fact they break something or another almost every month (they do usually fix it again under 24 hours, which maybe the other reason)
eat me….
Compelling story, beautiful illustration, skilled writing, puzzling ending… well worth a read or four: Murder Mysteries
On the Art of Writing
from On the Art of Writing specifically from the section On Jargon. “Has a Minister to say “No” […]
read freely
This information wants to be free: The Online Books Page
ouch
I didn’t have this hard a time — Why Computer Books Suck — but it’s not far off.
Design of Sites
One of the books I used to dream of writing was “a pattern language for the web.” Well, […]
fact or fiction?
guess it’s a nng day today: reading Don Norman’s interviews I discovered “The article quotes me as saying: […]
small thoughts writ large
As I creak through the last of the book, and work on a difficult project I find myself […]