Self-Promotion Alert: Read My (Very Short!) Fiction
This site is supposed to be me talking about the law and technology, but I have some shameless self promotion to do, so I’m deviating from the usual subject matter this week....
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Being Real Builds Trust Steph Hay, writing at A List Apart: Your mom may not be your target user, but she is a real person who’ll call you on your bullshit. This is great advice. The post Being Real...
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Brevity MG Siegler posted yesterday about his desire to write with more concision. His point is a good one: writing concisely suggests, when you think about it, a far better grasp of a topic than does...
View ArticleNate Kontny’s Draft: web-based collaboration, plaint text, and version...
I’ve tried almost every plain text writing environment out there. I use native applications to write long pieces on desktop or laptop computers, but I often long for a great web experience for those...
View ArticleDraft, web app for writers, gets publishing, Chrome extension in recent update
Draft can now publish to your blog — that’s how I published this post. It also has a new Chrome extension that makes version-controlling and saving your writing on the web even easier. This is big....
View Article10 great free monospaced fonts for programming
10 great free monospaced fonts for programming I can understand why programmers may want to consider using a decent font, but it’s worth noting that writers, particularly those who prefer plain text,...
View ArticleHow reality caught up with paranoid delusions
How reality caught up with paranoid delusions it was not in the least like losing one’s reason… I was rationalising all the time, it was simply one’s reason working hard on the wrong premises. —...
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500 Words A Day MG Siegler, general partner at Google Ventures, TechCrunch columnist, and tech writer: This year, my plan is to write roughly 500 words a day in the form of a short post here on this...
View ArticleAggregation is plagiarism
Aggregation is plagiarism Aggregation is plagiarism: I couldn’t help but aggregate (though not plagiarize) this link Jim Dalrymple aggregated to a post by a Mr. Joe Wilcox about how aggregation is,...
View ArticleGabriel García Márquez on life as literature
Gabriel García Márquez on life as literature The recently deceased García Márquez, in an interview published in the winter 1981 issue of The Paris Review: My mother asked me to accompany her to...
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