Most books by politicians are, at bottom, acts of salesmanship: efforts to persuade, beguile or impress the reader, efforts to rationalize past misdeeds and inoculate the author against future accusations. And yet beneath the sales pitch are clues — in...
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The many meanings of content
My blog silence ends here. And if ever I wondered at the ever-divaricating tangled connections that would result from our focus in Contented, this blog entry confirmed it. Romance novelists are long tailers too Why write your own content? This...
Pause for refreshment
I hope you will be contented if Contented is silent for a few weeks. I'll try, but I'll be in Tokelau for a month. Communication may be tricky. But I am keen to learn at first hand what free internet...
New words for old
The Language Report by Susie Dent is her fourth annual commentary on new words in the English language, drawing on the latest Oxford dictionaries. The Internet influence on language is powerful, spreading way beyond words actually used online. Dent comments:...
Telephone, Tel, Phone, Ph, Mobile, Mob, Cell
A friend asked for my opinion on this question - and I'd like to know your opinions too, because you see, I'm fudging my answer. 'When specifying contact details, it seems there are lots of possibilities for phone numbers,...