Four sites every online writer should know

June 15, 2010

What follows is a list of four sites every Web writer should visit at least once: Poynter Institute’s mission is to train journalists, students, educators and others in online and multimedia writing and editing. While you’re there, check out Roy Peter Clark’s nifty list of 50 writing tools. Purdue’s Online Writing Lab, or OWL,  houses [...]

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About half of adult Americans watch online videos

June 3, 2010

About half of all American adults have watched videos online, according to a new study of online video viewing habits conducted by the Pew Research Center. Seven in ten adult Internet users (69 percent) have used the internet to watch or download video, according to the study, whose results were released Thursday. That represents 52 [...]

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10 tasty iPad apps for writers

May 28, 2010

If you’re a writer, the first iPad app you probably downloaded was Pages, Apple’s word processing app. Now, what else do you need? Here are 10 tasty treats you’ll want in your digital lunch box: 1. Adobe Ideas 1.0 for iPad – When inspiration strikes while you’re out and about, Adobe Ideas is a good [...]

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Writing headlines for searchbots, not readers

May 17, 2010

“Headlines in newspapers and magazines were once written with readers in mind, to be clever or catchy or evocative. Now headlines are just there to get the search engines to notice.” – Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Headline, by David Carr, The New York Times Share This

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Facebook fun facts

May 13, 2010

Think you know Facebook? Check out this infographic from Online PhD Programs: Share This

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Tweets are the new quotes

May 4, 2010

Twitter has become an essential news source for bloggers, reporters and other news gatherers, but not for me. I’m too lazy to quote stuff I see there. First you have to take a screen capture, and then cut/paste it into your copy. It’s too much work. I rationalize not doing it by telling myself that [...]

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IBM’s Blog Muse promises to help bloggers overcome writer’s block

April 25, 2010

Researchers at IBM’s Center for Social Software in Cambridge, Mass. say they’ve found a cure for blogger’s block. Actually, what they’ve come up with is an idea generator for bloggers that draws on the wisdom of the hive for inspiration and feedback. Nicknamed “Blog Muse,” the idea generator solicits story ideas from a pool of [...]

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Avoid clichés like the plague

April 22, 2010

Clichés. Where would we be without out them? Flying a kite? Going through the motions? Kicking our feet up? Looking in the mouth of a gift horse? These days, I’m at wit’s end about writing or speech that includes: "At the end of the day" "That being said" Anything that is "spot on" Anything that [...]

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People judge you when you use bad English

April 18, 2010

The problem with writing in a conversational style is you risk making the sort of mistakes that sound okay when you say them, but when written, make you come off like a hick who just got off the bus in the big city. Here are some potential errors you should watch for: Fewer/Less. Use fewer [...]

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How to find out what’s being said about you on Twitter

April 15, 2010

More than a dozen tools will enable you find out what people on Twitter are saying about you (or more likely, your company) and I’ll run down a list of them in a few minutes. But first this: Google will roll out in the next few days a new “replay” feature that enables you to [...]

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