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...

A Rant About Online Text
Over at H5N1, the blog that's eaten me alive, I've just posted something that webwriters may find interesting: The Guardian reacts is a rant about how badly some print-based media display text when they move it to the online medium. Having vented my spleen about this, I feel much better now....

From Web 1.0 to Web 3.0?
Via the International Herald Tribune, a long and interesting article about where Sir Tim Berners-Lee wants the Web to go: A 'more revolutionary' Web. Excerpt: Just when the ideas behind "Web 2.0" are starting to enter into the mainstream, the mass of brains behind the World Wide Web is introducing pieces of what may end up being called Web 3.0. "Twenty years from now, we'll look back and say this...

Blogging a Nameless War
The Tyee has published my article Blogging a Nameless War, about the Lebanese and Israeli online response to the war in Lebanon....

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....

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...

European bloggers influencing business and media
Via the Guardian Unlimited: Ignore bloggers at your peril, say researchers. Bloggers and internet pundits are exerting a "disproportionately large influence" on society, according to a report by a technology research company. Its study suggests that although "active" web users make up only a small proportion of Europe's online population, they are increasingly dominating public conversations and creating business trends. More than half of the internet users on the continent...

Don't Bomb Us - Al Jazeera Blogs
A very interesting development: After release of the news that George Bush was thinking of bombing Al Jazeera's headqurters in Qatar, staff have responded by creating Don't Bomb Us - A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers. I doubt that blogs can actually confuse cruise missiles, but at least it will draw more attention to the difficulties of life in the Middle East media....

Teen Webwriters: More Numerous Than You Think
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a report on Teen Content Creators and Consumers. More than half of American teenagers have created Web content, the report says, and older teenage girls are serious bloggers. I can scarcely imagine the college students of the class of 2010. But I hope I get to teach some of them....

Pay Per Click Advertising
Advertising has gained tremendous importance in the marketing arena. Newer avenues have emerged giving much more than just the awareness factor to be looked upon. One such arena for marketing where a... [Author: Laurie Buckley - Site Promotion - September 27, 2006]