ON BLOGGING WELL

It occurred to me when I was visiting Seth Godin’s blog recently that there is a “good blogging style” – and he seems to have it. It’s when you develop a concise, vigorous voice and use it to post interesting, relevant or useful bits...

MEN GIVE UP FIRST

This post has been in draft mode for the past 24 hours while I published the latest issue of WordBiz Report. In other words, I started to post a note about a new survey by Perseus. I stopped because I wasn’t quite finished writing. And saved it as a draft. . The...

Top 20 Definitions of Blogging

What is a blog? Why blog? Who should blog (journalists, marketers, CEOs, techies, educators, scientists, hobbyists)? Should blogging be pure or can you make money with a blog? Will blogging change everything? Picture several hundred intense writer/thinker/bloggers at...

EMAIL IS SLIPPERY

I love this article by Dave Gelerntner in the 29 Sept 03 issue of The Weekly Standard, although I’m not sure I agree. “Is (email) good or bad for the art of writing? Both. It devalues the written word; email is so fast and easy to send, correspondents...

TOP 20 DEFINITIONS OF BLOGGING

I just posted a new article for tomorrow’s issue of WordBiz Report: Top 20 Definitions of Blogging. I’m still adding to the resource links at the bottom. If I’ve forgotten something horribly obvious and important (or if you just want to add another...

NOT BLOG UTOPIA… YET

I met so many interesting, smart people at BlogCon in Cambridge this past weekend. You might be wondering… who is doing all this blogging? Many of the BlogCon attendees were white males – highly-educated and mostly affluent. There were quite a few women,...