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Good writing is interesting.
Good writing is simple and concise.
Good writing reflects the clear thinking of it's author.
Good writing is fresh.
Good writing has correct mechanics.
"Writing is hard, writing for the web is a bitch" said Kristina
Halverson.
Here are some questions you can ask yourself when starting to write.
1. What is my purpose for writing?
2. What will my readers want to know about my topic?
3. How can I best arrange my information to make my ideas clear to my
readers?
4. What will make a good lead?
5. What are my main ideas?
6. What details can I use to develop my main ideas?
7. What will make a strong conclusion (or beginning if your writing
inverted pyramid)
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Gary gave a super charged and inspirational speech. Go Jersey!
Gary Vaynerchuk at FOWA Miami 09 from DamianVoltes.com on Vimeo.
We met Aza Raskin from Mozilla the other day, this guy is amazing… he gave his first talk on user experience for SIGCHI at the age of 10.
A couple of months ago he launched Ubiquity, this is a game changer.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
We’re at the Future of Web Apps and Dave McClure gave a great presentation on the metrics you need to setup or think about when setting up your business metrics.
You might have heard of WriteRoom, a distraction free writing system. Its for people who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full-screen writing environment for Mac. Unlike the cluttered word processors you’re used to, WriteRoom is just about you and your text.
I became very intrigued by this program as writing requires focus on words while document editors add all these features that are great, but distract us from the words. I found myself being distracted by the font, the size, the decoration, orphan words, call caps, small caps, etc. I am a designer so yes, its inherent that documents are well designed. This leaves my brain exhausted. We all know that multitasking is great for computers, but sucky for humans.
Being that the screen is so minimal it might take a second or two longer to learn the software and the simple things like opening and saving files. But once you get the hang of it, its pretty nifty.
I do recommend WriteRoom for writers. With one caveat. It costs $25. I understand the brilliance of simplicity and whatnot, but $25 for a text editor? So I found JDarkRoom (thanks to robrohan.com). JDarkRoom is presty much the same application, build on Java and FREE.
This is probably part of a bigger topic of the trend of simple applications that have a price attached to them are being reprogrammed and offered for free. This makes your brand the only differentiator… but thats another post.
Enjoy.
Not that I ever used it, but take a look:
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This “steam-punk” artist creates pinhole cameras using skulls. The workmanship is beautiful, and rather nightmarish. So are the photographs!
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