Fighting a Campaign Online

The Tyee has just published my article Fighting a Campaign Online. Using the Internet and the Web as a medium for politics isn't as easy as it looks....

A Neo-Techie's Morning
Alex Aylett has a very interesting article in The Tyee today: A Neo-Techie's Morning taught me a lot about how people are using new technologies. Very much worth reading....

Making It Easy for Customers To Choose You
If someone were standing right in front of you and told you they were considering buying my desk from you or from Vendor Z, what would you say to convince them to buy from you?

Housecleaning
Going through some of the links here has been a chastening experience. Having paid little attention to my original blog for a year or more, many of the links are now cobweb sites, or they've moved. I'm going to clean out the dead sites and find more good sites dealing with effective writing on the Web. If you're running a site that ought to be here, or you know of...

The 2006 Webby Awards
It's a huge list, and no doubt you'd argue with many of the choices. Still, this year's Webby Awards are worth exploring especially on topics like "Best Copy/Writing" and "Corporate Communications."...

Sir Tim Starts Blogging
And about time, too: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who changed our lives, has announced: So I have a blog. I think I can safely predict he'll enjoy very good traffic stats....

Becoming a Book Blog
After weeks of work, the third edition of Writing for the Web is nearly completed. It's a far more extensive revision than I'd expected, but I'm pretty happy with the result. Not only is much of the print content changed, expanded, and updated, but the book will contain a CD with scores of links a kind of electronic index, with added links on relevant topics. In addition, this site will become...

Arielle Ford, Publicist biography
Arielle Ford has helped launch the careers and create bestselling books for Deepak Chopra; Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the Soul series; Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God; Debbie Ford, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers; and Dean Ornish, Love and Survival and many, many other notable authors.

Blogs as Incitement to Riot?
According to the New York Times, French Police Fear That Blogs Have Helped Incite Riotings. It's an interesting and disturbing perspective, and the story includes a link to one of the blogs in question...which hasn't been updated since November 7. Even if you don't read French, you'll recognize that the bloggers use the same kind of phonetic-abbreviated language that North American teens have developed on their instant-messaging systems....