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Writing

On Writing Professionally

There’s some form of mystic associated with writing professionally that, in some ways, I don’t understand. It doesn’t exist with, say, web development — there are scores of web page designers and developers who would be appalled at having to do what they do as a hobby, as a job, day in and day out. […]

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Weblogging Writing

The world’s smallest postings

Steve Himmer (or should that be Opt Himmer? 5 Himmer?) subtly started something yesterday* that was intriguing to say the least: Is brevity really the soul of wit? Or, more precisely, am I capable of saying anything without rattling and rambling for 1000 words at a time? Included with this paragraph is a link to a new […]

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Writing

Typos, screw ups

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just had to fix several images for the Essential Blogging book. There was a typo in several of the screenshots – I used “weblob” rather than “weblog”. It would be funny, but after a while, I get tired of mistakes. I get tired of using the wrong word, but […]

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People Weblogging Writing

AKMA meets Ferret Face

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to point you to a Pixelview interview with AKMA that went online this week. I thought AKMA did a nice job with the interview questions. I hesitated to link to the interview considering that it was conducted by my old friend, Head Lemur, a man who has been less than complimentary about […]

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Technology Writing

Calling all Unix gurus

Rule number one if you’re taking a break from your weblog: turn off email notification for your comments. I kept responding to the comments rather than working. Speaking of working, the main reason I was taking the break was to finish my writing on two books for O’Reilly: the Essential Weblogging book and UNIX Power […]