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If you want people to share and bookmark your content you have to write with their needs in mind. Hard news style and web usability writing are key.
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Let’s start with what you’ve just read.My keyword specific headline tells you what this post is about in plain language. The [...]

“A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to look out” – G.C Lichtenberg
Had GC Lichtenberg been alive today, he might well have been talking about the internet. We’re the ones teaching the internet what to be with our every use. Utopia or dystopia, what it is, [...]

Has anybody else had a tough time explaining the value and purpose of Twitter to your non-Twittering friends, clients or colleagues?
After writing several lengthy emails, I threw all my best examples and links into a single message. My “Twitter explained” boilerplate is the result.

Gangs, drugs, street racing, bullying, video game addiction. These are the typical negative headlines we associate with today’s youth. It’s really no wonder why young people disengage from a media that reinforces negative stereotypes and treats them as an entity to be seen, observed, critiqued but not heard. One of the things I’ve always told [...]

My article below was originally published in Mindjack Magazine online.

October 28, 2002 | There has never been a better time to read the work of [...]

My article below originally published in Mindjack Magazine online.
April 29, 2002 | If there’s a message of the for dummies age it’s that nothing is beyond our grasp. [...]