'Communication' Category
Brevity
“There are volumes one can write about brevity, provided the author doesn’t understand how to properly employ it.”
- Ike Pigott
- Inspired by Chris Brogan and Liz Strauss on Twitter, where attempts at brevity sometimes succeed.
Proud and Tickled
I have to say that I am immensely proud of all the Red Cross disaster relief workers who have used New Media tools to share the word about what is really happening. You guys have really picked up the ball and run with it — and now more than ever it’s important to showcase what [...]
The 90-Trick Pony
Back in my teevee and radio days, I worked with some amazing people. Many are still contributing to the business, and everyone had something important to share. Some of those lessons, however, were by negative example.
We’ll call him Carl. Carl was a journeyman, bouncing from station to station in town. He [...]Language and Mashups
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Freakonomics.
If you’re an American and you look at best-seller lists, you know what it is.
If you’re an American and you don’t read, you still have a chance to glean the meaning, because we do rely quite a bit on a linguistic creature [...]Ugly and Rough
“Ugly” and “rough” - at least in the English language - sound sort of like they are. They certainly don’t roll off the tongue like “pretty” and “smooth.” There’s a whole chicken-and-egg argument that we could make about whether ugly-sounding words describe ugly things, or if we associate the ugliness of a word [...]
