Oh my gosh. Blog shorter blog more often she said. Well, haven't a hope of growing a tenth of the blog-germs in my mind. And now, even though I'm in Delhi, I will throw some notes down about the excellent...
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Blog shorter, blog more often, blog happier
How big is a blog post? Any length we please. an hors d'ouvre: three lines of links. a bowl of soup: 200 words. a satisfying salad: a full length feature article. It's all good! Except maybe... A disgustingly large steak...
Denis Dutton and Webstock: art instinct at play
And so it came to pass that Webstock 2011 was launched, and we saw that it was good. (That's supposed to sound glorious, authoritative, King-James-Biblical, not lukewarm, by the way.) First speaker was Professor Denis Dutton, who: not only spoke...
Accessibility problem in Word: don't rely on colour
Today I struck an accessibility problem in an otherwise perfectly clear Word document. Though small, it was a healthy reminder that web content accessibility guidelines, as in WCAG 2.0, apply to everything we write on a computer. Later this week...
Plain language: even buskers need it
Plain English Week starts Sunday 28 August in New Zealand. Everyone needs to write clearly: even buskers. Michel des Godins is a thrilling throat-singer, performing his incomprehensible poetry on the streets of Paris—through a false beard. His documentation, on signs...