One drawback I see in our ability to communicate faster than ever before is that we have become lazy about our language. A word or phrase will suddenly pop up everywhere, and we tend to pick it up and repeat it without really questioning what it means or how it's being used. See, for example, the term … Continue reading Information overload and the loss of meaning…
Over the last couple of days, I have been reading a lot about content mills. In case you aren't familiar with the term, content mills or content farms are websites or networks of sites that churn out thousands of pieces of content per day, which are optimized to score high on specific search engine results. … Continue reading A few thoughts (and some links) about content mills…
The web has made it easy for anyone anywhere to publish their writing with very little effort or money, and for the most part, I believe this is a VERY GOOD THING. There probably hasn't been a time in history when people could so easily express themselves, and instead of shouting into the void, there's … Continue reading So much crappy writing, so little time…
The phrase "after the jump" on blogs is one of my particular pet peeves, and I have noticed that usage does not seem to be abating. One reason why it's annoying is because the majority of the readership has no idea what it means -- including the blogger, in many cases. Besides being unintelligible, it's … Continue reading Let’s all stop saying “after the jump”…
The blog has become so popular because it is a format that has a wide variety of uses. Generally, web surfers are used to seeing blogs used in one of the following ways: to present information and news on a narrow subject in small, manageable chunks, generally supported by advertising to communicate news about a … Continue reading Practical uses for blogs: Journals and research notebooks
