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My Blog Audience
Perhaps it’s because I’m still new to blogging that I haven’t lost the sense of wonder yet. It’s summer here and things are kind of nice late at night. I was sitting at my computer in a room with a …...
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Blog, language and the global audience
It was a rainy day yesterday. Gray sky as dark as slate, a gray river with boats in muted colours stuck solid on the gray, opaque water of the Hudson in the low light. The air smelt of wet vegetation....
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On Writing and Complexity (Part 2)
Continued from On Writing and Complexity (Part 1) How do we react to the following writers who might be trying to say they’re happy? Person A: Awwwww. How sweet. That’s the best thing ever! Red roses...
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On learning writing through blogging
There is still a perception out there that spending a part of your time on blogging or social media is wasteful, frivolous or simply inane–a “soft” pursuit that you choose to follow because you’ve...
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Five kinds of comments
Comments. They have really been around a long time in many other avatars. We are familiar with letters exchanged between writers and poets, review letters published in newspapers, of recommendations by...
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How reading has become more social
For the longest time, we were talking about how the internet was making us unsocial. Rather than socializing with our neighbours and “real” friends and family, we were running after people we hadn’t...
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Five ways to hold your readers’ interest in your blog posts
This post is as much for myself as for my readers. I’m beginning to take notes as things work and as things don’t as I blog on the blog hoping to help myself and anyone who reads this compendium of …...
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The Neapolitan Blog for Different Audiences
One of the biggest challenges of writing a good blog is the challenge of catering to different kinds of readers. I don’t know if everyone would agree, but the act of writing a blog itself implies that...
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