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You Can’t Please Everyone
In my inaugural post, I highlighted 10 Great Grammar Blogs. One of my favorites from that list, DailyWritingTips, recently posted a list of its own entitled, “50 Tips on How to Write Good,” by Mark...
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Is English Evolving or Devolving?
Long before Messrs. Strunk and White entered the fray, humanist, scientist and liberal political theorist Herbert Spencer set out to create a handbook on good composition (for more, see this excellent...
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Web Content: Is Simpler Better?
While perusing an article about improving one’s writing for the web, I encountered the following passage: Simpler writing helps everyone. I was stunned to learn that 43% of people in the US read at a...
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Technology & Culture Weekly Update
In honor of Arbor Day, I’m celebrating a very special bit of greenery — the coffee tree! Yes, I have a bit of a fetish for the fruit of the bean. I’ve blogged about the application of technology to my...
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Technology & Culture Weekly Update
May is National Bike month (loads of related activities here) and we should all be spending more time on our bikes. Cycling is good for your body, mind and spirit, it’s easier on your wallet than...
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Technology & Culture Weekly Update
Coffee redux: As previously noted, NPR recently devoted an entire week to a special report on the many aspects of coffee culture. This week it’s Maria Popova’s turn to sing the praises (and dis the...
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Technology & Culture Weekly Update
Ethnic cleansing, ca. 1653: Last week we took a peek at the emerging discipline of GIS, and there’s more cool map-related news to report today. Following his conquest of Ireland, Oliver Cromwell doled...
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Technology & Culture Weekly Update 5/25/13
Technology and culture embodied in art: Since we’ve still got a few days of Bike Month left, I thought I’d share some velo-centric goodness with y’all. To kick things off, get a load of photographer...
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Technology & Culture Weekly Update 6/4/13
“Britain’s Pompeii”: Looking like the love child of an old sailing ship and a flying saucer, the Mary Rose Museum made its debut in Portsmouth last Friday. The unique facility houses an equally unique...
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The Copyeditor’s Code
Marcel Proust, original ms. “Du côté de chez Swann,” public domain The Copyediting blog recently posted a graphic based on editor Erin Brenner’s earlier article, “The Typographic Oath” (with a nod to...
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