I made this for my recent presentation about web writing. A lot of it is not new to expert webessionals like you, but to my audience on the day most of it was new. Might even have been interesting. I’m putting it here so I don’t mislay it.
Print writing
Web writing
Adverts come first
Adverts come second
The writer [...]
My presentation in dev mode, as post-its on my office wall
So, like I said yesterday, I don’t do a lot of presentations. And, like I said yesterday, after finding a pretty fundamental flaw in Apple’s presentation app Keynote, I didn’t want to use it to display slides in front of a roomful of people. So [...]
Here’s what’s on my plate right now…
I’ve been asked to do a session on Writing for the web in front of an audience of journalists and editors employed by Informa Healthcare; my head’s spinning with thoughts on what to say and what to leave out
Planning to attend Bristol Barcamp 2008
I’m trying to persuade someone to [...]
Here’s what’s on my plate this morning:
Writing reviews of Meander and Leap for MacUser
Planning a Writing for the web seminar for editorial professionals
Researching the Phorm story for possible inclusion in a forthcoming column for PA
Snapper review for MacUser
Understanding BitTorrent and Protecting your computer for YouthNet’s thesite.org
Coming soon: more MacUser reviews, of MacJournal 5 and Screenflow.
My latest at The Morning News is A writer by any other name:
Well, it’s accurate, you can give it that. But there’s not much spark, is there? Not much of me. Where’s the humor? Where’s the person? Where, in particular, is the biography? These two sentences are just statements of fact, things my mother could [...]
One of the most stressful things about writing in newspapers and magazines is reading letters from readers about your articles. There were many occasions during my years as a reporter at the Cambridge Evening News that a reader’s letter would be published that tore apart something I’d written a day or so before. The sub-editors [...]
I’ve just finished writing my two festive columns for PA, which traditionally look back over the year and summarise the last 12 months of internet news. In the past I’ve posted the summaries here, but in the interests of brevity, this year I’m just going to summarise the summary.
So, in short: Mechanical Turk (+S3 +EC2), [...]
Yesterday saw the public launch of the YouCanDo Guides at an event in Westminster. I’ve spent much of the last month or so helping to produce the material that explains what the Guides are, and who they are for.
So what are they? And who are they for?
Well, have you heard of The Scarman Trust? It [...]
Very busy right now, working with Gallomanor on a project for The Scarman Trust.
Also, I’ve been asked to be editor - although it’s more of a moderator role - of the new(ish) Bradford on Avon community web site. Mostly, I’ll be encouraging people to use it, and showing them how if need be.
