my rest stop on the information superhighway
Links from Friday, September 12, 2008 to Monday, September 15, 2008
by Adam Kuban
- Top 10 Worst Types of Blog Post (and How to Fix Them)
Boing Boing has a great tutorial on better blogging. I'm bookmarking this to use as an example for all our bloggers and interns at Serious Eats.
(tags: blogging blogs writing SeriousEats BoingBoing )
- RMN ‘Tweets’ the Funeral of 3-year-Old Boy Killed in Ice Cream Shop
I've really been getting into Twitter lately, both for personal use and "fun" (yeah, lame definition of fun, I know)—but also for Serious Eats. I'm trying to figure out a good way to effectively use it to communicate with our community. Anyway, this story here is a good example of a very *ineffective* way to use it. WTF, Rocky Mountain News?
(tags: newspapers cluelessness idiocy Twitter Colorado RockyMountainNews journalism technology )
- Kottke Is Crushing on Merlin Mann These Days
He really likes what Mann has had to say about blogging recently. He quotes Mann: "Find your obsession. Every day, explain it to one person you respect. Edit everything, skip shortcuts, and try not to be a dick. Get better." Kottke's response to that is: "Going through my newsreader today, most of the sites I follow are written with those things in mind. Those that don't, out they go." I would really love to see what's in Kottke's newsreader, but somehow I don't think he'd open that up to the public. That's probably like trade secrets or something.
(tags: blogging blogs Kottke MerlinMann writing )
