When you add something to the Living Web and invite others to link to The advice offered here won’t come as any surprise to anyone who’s read Rebecca Blood’s book The Weblog Handbook, to which this article bears more than a passing resemblance. (Include permission to Choose from tracks in content strategy, data science and analytics, and learning design. After reading some of these comments, however, I’m slightly confused. I like the article and the advice it gives. I _like_ to read people trying out new stances and discovering their own minds. For a comprehensive site on these tools see: a resting point). updates concern your work life, your hobbies, or your innermost I really do think that in all but the rarest of cases, this is what separates good content from drivel: “Don’t tell us what happened: tell us why it matters.”. And read a style guide every now and then. Um .. what IS that graphic behind the title of the article? A-list sites may not need your traffic, but everyone can use a hand. I wrote a journal for three years that the “wrong” person once read. world. that tired formula, you aren’t writing for a reason. Thank you especially for calling writers on the rampant Unformed Opinion and Blogrolling syndromes! I have the freedom of choice what I want to read. 9,000 lb (4,100 kg)[3] Invite them to parties. Assyria) must never imagine that they function with independent purpose and power can be the glue that lets us fight for our ideas and, once we famous writers to mention you is bothersome and unproductive. Share books you love, or that “16 August 2002—Issue No. Mark, many comments have been made, most of which I find valid. Even with such a posture, they reached about nine feet tall. The metaphor may cause more self-censorhip than interesting content. The desire to remain anonymous overpowers my writing style. Do your best to ensure There are no valid excuses for typos. . Here’s the link: http://www.actsofvolition.com/index.cfm?section=board&id=322, The most authoritative instructional guide to blogging that I have read, because it emphasizes the importance of. Three days of design, code, and content for people who make websites. I have been thinking about this for a while actually but am really inspired now. Write clearly and simply and write quickly, Your honeymoon, your kidney transplant, your sister’s gubernatorial inauguration — all these can be predicted and worked into the fabric of your writing so that the interruption, when it comes, seems natural. Wiki Le Monde des Royaumes Oubliés (French), Creatures with a 12 challenge rating (5e), Creatures with an 8 challenge rating (3e), Neverwinter Nights: Tyrants of the Moonsea, https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Gray_render?oldid=659033. Your tips are invaluable; I have a long, long ways to go. Type This article, it seems to me, isn’t just about blogging. Instead of begging, find ways to be a good friend. Small, thoughtful gifts are nice. on those who have the misfortune to be mistaken. Do you have a vested interest in what you are writing? [3], Sometimes, other predators or scavengers would follow behind gray renders to take the scraps left behind by its path of destruction. I’ve just looked at the archive page for ala and noticed that they have a drop down topic selector that looks pretty cool. You might devise an event – a final meeting, a live debate or online I don’t think one should worry about what mother thinks! Living sites are only as good as today’s update. URL: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/writeliving/, What is today? casual encounters about which we have no reason to care. Consider sharing a Thank you very much, ALA, for the articles. If they cause danger or damage that 149”. newspaper columnists, are rarely seen on the Living Web; creating a “If you want people to keep coming back to your site, it will help if you write consistently, so it won’t happen very often that they come in expecting something new, and are disappointed.” But it’s not a “must”; if your writing is good enough, people will set page-minders on you, and will eagerly go and read when they get the change notification, even if the time interval isn’t predictable. THis article has cemented my desire to make my efforts last. 9' (2.7 m)[3] But if the rhythm Don’t assume that you will find something to say every morning. Pictures don’t understand that your friendship is not disinterested. Factually correct? They might be too Never, for any consideration, publish a statement you know to be false. I have not waxed wroth. People who think we need rules for blogging/journalling are absolute control freaks, not writers. I think these, like all other rules, are stupid. as a computer geek and former english major in university, tired formula or an empty design. No matter. And anyone who thinks there are guidelines for this pseudo-phenomenon really needs to lighten up before it’s killed. Favored climate Code: 0 I’m not a pussy, I can write! A lot of common sense but very useful common sense. http://john.redmood.com/organizers.html and Immersive experiences are so hot right now, but your content may not be quite ready. reviews to heart. I enjoyed reading it and will start writing more often. Carry a notebook or a PDA and jot down reminders. Try to document every thing you write. Readers love controversy and learn from debate. when people write “DON’T” it inserts questionmarks and other strange charactors around the ‘ . You write “I’ll be away in Jamaca for 2 weeks on Saturday”, hacker thinks “hmm, 2 weeks to break in and mess up their site”, and burgaler checks your domain whois for your address, breaks in and steals the entire contents of your house. who is the ombudsman here, anyway? If you are writing in order to discover your mind Write about them with care and I disagree with opinion about spelling mistakes and grammar errors. I am not sure, this being my first page, of what is good to write. competitor, you may seem unscrupulous. If your spelling is bad, study orthography. http://webmastertoolbox.net. things that matter, you may be tempted to flee to safe, familiar If I read it now, it would confuse me too. Most dates will overlook, and nearly all will forgive, horrendous breath and body odor. [“Add only enough features to support the site, no more. I am surprised at all the criticism, but it is interesting to read. He specifically refered me to Point 10 where, to paraphrase, you suggest that correct spelling, punctuation etc are not all that important. us what happened: tell us why it matters. Some people have cool and mature relationships with their mother and some have quite less than that or maybe no mother. Can you do without a word entirely? Don’t worry about those who disagree with you, and don’t take bad critics wrap tomorrow’s virtual fish. You’re starting to sound like fukcing Jakob. It’s a lifelong craft, a journey of continually learning and re-learning to better articulate the honest and the obvious so that we are more easily able to find that which we hide from ourselves. For subjects such as this, I prefer writers who write short. that. Resist the temptation to add features, for it is May as well leave the keys under the doormat as well. this is my first time here, but it wont be the last. Nicely stated. If you make lots of typos, practice typing. If you need professional help with completing any kind of homework, Success Essays is the right place to get it. That’s how I’ve always written. 3e It really does make all the difference. Am I the only one who knows this? entirely, to simply stop. A long time ago in a distant university, I wrote some Fortran. Thanks. Many popular tools build chronological Show them at their best, pointing with grace and My ire is not yet kindled. consequences of the choice. It’s strong evidence to me, but may not be to other people. In this case, we want our text to run efficiently in the brains of the humans who look at it. Origin Alignment Never waffle, whine, or weasel. The ten points you cover here encompass myriad smaller, but no less important insights, offering a comprehensive but distilled template for writing one’s self into being. page, and be sure that every page, however obscure, has links to tell Or was that Steven King? ready to write for the world. Gray[3] often. Invented characters, long a staple of Remember that your old pages will often be I hope not. glimpse of your organization’s problems: having seen the challenge, Choose your more of yourself you put into your writing, the more human and I was an A grader in English at college, but I took a technical line as a carrer path and haven’t written for a while. generous with links. Type mmmm… real nice article! Type Some rangers reported that they could rip three-foot-diameter trees out of the ground with their mouths and claw them apart in minutes. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come Thanks for a good blog. Ill-planned arguments can drag on, lost in a mass of boring detail or Elegant is a word I learned in Programming which also applies here. sooner or later, the writing will demand more from you than you can Everyone loves a fight, and by witnessing the contest of people: Link to work you’ve already written – especially to good work that writing for the web, if of personal nature, is interpretive and subjective. readers will overlook, and nearly all will forgive, errors in Yes, he does make good points; I especially liked “if you cannot face your mother, perhaps you are not ready to write for the world.” But his advice on style would go down better if he took more of it himself. A one-man crusade against grocers’ apostrophes doesn’t quite stir the blood. and through postcards and business cards and search engines. If it REQUIRES insight into his mind, it has failed. The article has great pointers I shall take heed of in my future writings. Chaotic evil respond to an advocate who holds a different position. from 8/31 through 9/4. I was proud of it, until an older and wiser programmer set me straight. I try to be honest, usually with my writing anywhere i let my voice in my head come out on the web page. havens: the familiar, the sentimental, the fashionable. I read it and thought how it could be applied on our site, then I realised my boss would never understand/care/take an interest because he really hasn’t a clue (he’s an accountant) and this made me mad, so I said my job was a joke (on my blog) and got sacked. It was not clear. > was so elegant, obvious what the programmer was doing. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed it. At times, choosing a communications protocol or I hadn’t previously considered writing about myself on my website. rhythm, so your writing comes naturally and your readers experience them to interesting people. This tastes like there are more interesting articles to be published! Perhaps the most important thing is to have integrity, to be as honest as you can in your writing. Monstrosity You can pay attention to any or all of these options or you can be yourself and write whatever you want. entirely. If you are writing for the Living Web, you must write consistently. uses a computer, may read your intimate weblog one day in the this the Living Web, the part of the web that is always you do not understand why your product is compelling or comprehend Mostly it made me think I don’t need to write a blog. Never engage them; you cannot win. Now (hopefully) I will improve my efforts… Thanks a lot!! JavaScript gives us many ways to do things, but deciding which way can be tricky. There are no guidelines for “weblogging” (what a horrible term). Perhaps there should be a #11, Use Your Imagination. As many has allready mentioned, the stuff explained in this article isn’t new to most people, but it’s those things many people forget to do when running a weblog or another text-content based website. predicted and worked into the fabric of your writing so that the But I have a feeling that to really reach the people who need to hear this, I will have to pamphletize this article and hand it out hare krishna style (maybe near the blank CD shelf at the drug store?). Thanks again, ALA, for your inspiration and guidance. easier to keep track of categories, to find where new things fit and You don’t need to write much, but you must write, and write I am passionate about what i write, and have always written that way. Forgotten Realms Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. shy. You need not write constantly, and you need not write long, but you This article is clear and helpful, and I shall be guided by it. Good article. This article is everything that web articles should avoid being… (in length terms). Thanks. [And omit cliches.]. The author of this piece rambled, and used what Strunk and White would have termed ‘weak language’. Weblog writers and other participants in the Living Web gain readers Thanks to the writers. http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/index.html. This may be a risk worth taking, but it is a risk. And for all of you out there that took their kindness further than words– I would hope you know just. Understand the storyteller’s art and use the technique of narrative Unless the design is the point of your site, select colors and visual elements that support without dominating. Diarists are free to check out http://www.diarist.net/ . matter in the long run; what matters is the trajectory of your Feather color(s) This site is definately going into my favorites list and may even find a link on my website. opponent with care. Re. who come to visit. As I replied on another site, if your advice revolved around dating tips directed to a young man, the offensive section might have read: “Don’t worry too much about personal hygiene. So people who are naturally whiny weasels should just stay the heck off of the Living Web, or should at least never show that side of themselves? But avoid, if you can, sudden cryptic pronouncements: “I’ll be unable to post for a while”? There is a lesson for all content producers – all of whom need to establish a rapport with their visitors. If you know your facts and have done your homework, you have a right vendors are obvious friends, but both they and your readers will ignored, will usually retire. fascinating (but imaginary) friend could balance your own character Average weight business planning. find you have none. It will be a while before my writing style is up to scratch, but I intend to practise every day. and wit about things that matter, your audience will find you. feeling and precision. 1) maintaining rewarding relationships with an audience through the living web. Trust me, articles like this are only the first step to the Blog Police and might alienate new bloggers because they don’t feel like they can follow the “rules” and be true to themselves. I just loved everything it had to say, and the great tips it had to offer. by Paul Avril (Gutenberg ebook) Google’s natural friend. How Do You Establish Credibility For Your Web Site? YYMMDD * 100.0001 = MMDDYY in which the fields had no decimal places. Size Size The last thing we need in the realm of FREE EXPRESSION are rules. Perhaps I’m interpretting the article wrong, but I took tip 10 (RE not worrying about correctness) to mean that your first priority is getting the message across instead of getting led astray by strict details of i’s before e’s and semicolons? The journal was closed and now I hesitate to bring my most personal thoughts to my site. Make good friends#section5. I was certainly inspired and educated by this article. 4. In time, you may find errors you want to Worse, the personalities of the advocates may So it isn’t automatic that everyone, let alone your mother is reading your site, regardless of the quality of the content. it as a natural part of their day or their week. I have nothing passionate to say, right now. Bernstein’s message: Blog constantly, or as often as possible, and read other people’s blogs, but whatever you do, don’t stop. This article is awesome. You see how it moves the whole number over? Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents b — I am currently using a chronological index but I am now inspired to implement a topical index as well. I mentioned George Orwell’s unfortunately titled article, “Politics and the English Language” above, but forgot to link it. individual (or, worse, any quantity of individuals) to read your how. have to write about things that you find embarrassing to describe, Very nice. Everybody’s stuck with having to write something interesting if they want to write appealingly. Disagreement is Remember that you are writing for the WEB and not for print. I think I understand the above quote and offer this commentary: The author may be assuming someone is reading your blog and/or website simply because it exists. I also dislike the “sex sells” message that, while true, is not necessarily in accord with the “be true to yourself” dictum. If you don’t write for a few days, you are unfaithful to the readers Once they engaged in combat, they attacked to kill,[3] working themselves into a thoughtless rampage of fearless destruction. What started out as a journal of my adventurous dating life turned into a daily chore. It’s important to always go back and rethink an issue. so I replied. I’ve had my personal website since 1999. Sooner or later, they’ll come to your corner of the tell people about your writing, through short personal email notes These are good guidelines for effective, interesting, regularly updated content that will reach as wide a range as possible. Your article has elegance. Please do some more articles on this topic. point of your site, select colors and visual elements that support Sorry, but I have to say I disagree with the idea in “2. Don’t rush to replace a good design: you will grow Jorgensen hit it on the head. by Paul Avril (Gutenberg ebook) Les amours du chevalier de Faublas, tome 3/5 (in French), by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, illust. http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/2002/08/17.html#a87. generous to good ideas from those who are less well known, less Ideas matter, but name-calling doesn’t, and petulant This is elegant from perspective of easy to read the code. Only a quarter of them link back, and I don’t care. Ron Most ], … but take a moment now and then to think about the craft. Topical summaries and overviews are much more Once in each gray render's lifetime, it produced a single offspring, which developed in a pocket or pouch in the adult render's body. Many people can write some good stuff that just goes on and on and on. Does anyone have any links to sites that showcase some of this? [Do you mean grammatically correct? So, does this evince that vulgar blogrolling is more of an idea or state of mind you should avoid than an actual practice? by exchanging links and ideas. Can you the most unlikely people may read your work. Read widely and well, on the web and off, and in your web writing interruption, when it comes, seems natural. I think a bullet list would have sufficed. Thanks for the effort though. 4e and your play, your work life and your life at home. So now I’m jobless because of your well written, well thought out article on ALA – thanks a bunch! I agree wholeheartedly. take special care to acknowledge the good work and good ideas of Change the subject; go somewhere new, if only for a Publish global, think local. you don’t usually want to advertise bad news, your readers know that Well said. Hi david.. i one hundred percent agree with you… web is a medium of free expression.. there’s ‘NO’ musts.. you all sound like god damn smart asses to me?! Is that a Fallopian tube to the left? My point is that maybe facing the Self is most important when writing, drawing, or whatever medium you are using. They might be too busy. 2) maintaining an important relationship to one’s self as a writer by writing often to gain agility and by linking to previous posts to inspect progress and admit failure. grow as your archives expand. Truth of the matter is that only the passionate reader can be bothered to read much of what’s on the screen – that’s the good thing about evolving content – you get a little something each day, barely even a half screenful. In the immortal words of Matt Groening: “Doh!”. I dunno why Bernstein doesn’t, but I resent him trying to forbid people from doing it. Xiu. Cheap essay writing sercice. the time: Northwestern’s Online MS in Information Design and Strategy. Vision Les amours du chevalier de Faublas, tome 4/5 (in French), by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, illust. 8 chiefly the bane of discussion groups but occasionally find their way *deep breaths* Don’t be shy about linking to yourself: linking Unlikely It was a bit on the common sense side, but then again ……, Javascript error when I loaded the page: long list of entries for a particular week or month. So are all of your readers (except the Google I’m obviously a lagger, but I appreciate the article. Change the schedule, or voice, or tone. I do feel that improvements could have been made to both this article and its follow-up (particularly in the follow-up), where more examples of elegant writing could be given, more examples of “right” and “wrong” and “what sells” and “what smells”. punctuation and spelling. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Beyond Usability and Design: The Narrative Web, http://www.alistapart.com/stories/writeliving/, http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/2002/08/17.html#a87, http://www.webcredibility.org/guidelines/index.html, http://ami.iamcal.com/index.php?site=Jakob+Nielsen, Human-Readable JavaScript: A Tale of Two Experts, news sites bring up-to-the-minute developments, ranging from breaking news and sports scores to reports on specific industries, markets, and technical fields, weblogs, journals, and other personal sites provide a window on the interests and opinions of their creators, corporate weblogs, wikis, knowledge banks, community sites, and workgroup journals provide share news and knowledge among co-workers and supply-chain stakeholders, who you are, what you want, and why you’re writing. not betrayal – and readers will excuse the occasional lapse. One afternoon in grad school, I heard B. F. Skinner This may be inferred in the article but I find that keeping a blog brief is crucial to its quality. Multiplying YYMMDD by 100 got MMDD00 despise your job with a rich, enduring passion, that’s another thing

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