Archive for June 2006
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Surprise Readers and Visitors
June 30th, 2006 |I took a writing class and learned something that applies to web design. Broca’s area is a part of the brain involved with speech and language processing. When the brain sees something predictable, it doesn’t pay attention to it. But when something surprises the Broca, then it stands at attention. This article does a far [...]
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Finding Sources for Articles
June 29th, 2006 |Who doesn’t like to be quoted in an article? Not many folks, but when you’re talking to big companies or consulting firms — they have gates and policies that make it tough to get a quote and fast. I discovered that not many consulting firms will provide a quote on recent news because they haven’t done [...]
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Dodging Tired Clichés and Phrases
June 28th, 2006 |As I write an article, it’s not unusual for a commonly use cliché or phrase to pop out from my fingers and onto the monitor. I stop and try to get rid of the phrase. Why would I want to use something that’s been said so many times even if it’s a fit? I don’t. [...]
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Writing Letters… by Hand
June 27th, 2006 |Funny that I talked about snail mail and writing letters yesterday as I came across this article from the Orlando Sentinel. Yes, I noticed the typo in “pen pal” and captured it. This article comes from The New York Times and caught my eye for two reasons: handwritten letters (not the alphabet kind) and Professor [...]
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Book Review: Smartsourcing
June 27th, 2006 |Outsourcing is here to stay, regardless of how employees feel about it since businesses continue to save money as a result. It is, however, evolving into something less threatening to employees as companies discover savings–by using other companies to manage a part of the business that’s not considered one of their core processes. Smartsourcing looks [...]
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Book Review: The Street-Smart Writer
June 26th, 2006 |The introduction says it well. “I wish there were no need for this book.” Unfortunately, there are enough scams and untrustworthy folks in the writing industry to warrant a book on the subject. I’d like to think I know better, but I got suckered when I was as a college student who loved the idea [...]
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Inflated Stamp Prices and Marketing
June 26th, 2006 |Pay bills? Do that online. Write a letter to a camper? Ditto. Submit a contract? Send it by email and then fax it back, scan and email it back, or use an electronic signature and email it back. With increasing stamp rates and email taking over, it’s no surprise the U.S. Post Office (USPS) has a [...]
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Proof Is in the Details
June 23rd, 2006 |As a long time Mavs fan (yes, since the ’80s), I checked in with Mark Cuban’s Blog Maverick to see how he responded to the Maverick’s disappointing series against the Heat. A guy takes a different approach to owning a professional basketball team, and people talk smack. He did what needed to be done. He turned [...]
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Book Review: The May Queen
June 22nd, 2006 |Turning 30 wasn’t as I had hoped. Being the youngest of three by a gap, I was used to feeling young and always younger than everyone else. As I entered my thirties, I felt depressed whenever the ages of a football star, actor, or big shot manager appeared in an article. They were such big [...]
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Linguistic Scholars and Blogging
June 21st, 2006 |Analyzing Eggcorns and Snowclones, and Challenging Strunk and White looks at Language Log, a blog covering linguistic boo boos. My kind of place. The article talks of eggcorns, “a type of slip of the ear in which people mishear a word and mispronounce it, then insist that the malapropism is correct.” Maybe I’m obtuse, but I [...]
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