Posts Tagged ‘writing’

Search Engine Optimization – Kicking it up a Notch

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

One way to help you grow your search engine rankings organically is to get links from websites that are related to the keyword topics you want to be found for.

Grammar Anarky

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Grammar doesn’t always have to be such serious business. Sometimes, we should just take a minute to chuckle.

Is Fast Flip the Future of Journalism?

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Google just launched the news reader Fast Flip. Articles will load faster because they are stripped of ads and other things that slow down how quickly they load. Will this have an impact on the way the news is written?

Similar Words are Easily Confused

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

There are a lot of words that sound the same, but are spelled differently. Even the New York Times gets it wrong.

Treat Your Visitors Well

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

It is important to remember that visitors to your page are like browsers in a store.  They will respond to the way that they are treated.  That’s why many high-end retailers have sales associates greet you within five seconds.  They know that a smile and a “how may I help you?” can go a long [...]

Consider Web Content Before Design

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Companies considering setting up a new website need to start the process by thinking about what they want their web site to say in order to achieve maximum online exposure. Some web design firms tend to design awful websites because they are obsessed with getting attention through images and not through words. When people come [...]

Writing With Style

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

By Kurt Vonnegut Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and intentional, elements of [...]

The Joy of Prose

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Kerouac’s Belief and Technique for Modern Prose List of Essentials Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy Submissive to everything, open, listening Try never get drunk outside yr own house Be in love with yr life Something that you feel will find its own form Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind [...]