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• Guardian America's voice

  Inigo Thomas introduces Guardian's new American Web site be explaining why its style and writing voice will not be "Americanized"

  Oct 24 2007 at 1:56 PM EDT

  Topics: Style & Usage, Online Journalism

• Nielsen says don't avoid passive writing

  Realizing the positively ironic nature of the headline amuses me.

  Oct 22 2007 at 2:10 PM EDT

  Topics: Writing, Usability

• Write articles not blogs

  Jakob Nielsen offers some good advice on how to be an expert.

  Jul 9 2007 at 2:43 PM EDT

  Topics: Writing, Work

• Google killed the clever news headline

  Headline style has been slowly altered by the search agents scouring the digital world.

  Apr 10 2006 at 2:34 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Writing

• Podcast is the word of the year

  No surprise as almost anyone whose anyone is doing it. Bird flu, lifehack, and sudoku were among the runners up.

  Dec 7 2005 at 9:34 AM EST

  Topic: Language

• Love the semi-colon

  A defence of one of my personal favourite punctuation marks.

  Sep 19 2005 at 9:15 AM EDT

  Topic: Style & Usage

• Good writing advice

  Some good, and simple, advice about writing; put the ending first.

  Sep 5 2005 at 9:09 PM EDT

  Topic: Writing

• Fucking Caps and Spelling

  Canadian journalism’s de facto spelling guide, Caps and Spelling, allows “fuck” to be spelled out.

  Aug 15 2005 at 1:57 PM EDT

  Topics: Style & Usage, Journalism

• The Elements of (Newspaper) Blogging

  The editor of Grenboro’s News & Record posts some smart standards and practices for its blogging journalists.

  Jul 27 2005 at 12:54 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Writing

• Great writing in Steven Johnson profile

  Written in the second person (difficult to pull off) the intro sucks you into an enagaging profile review of the author and his work.

  Jun 28 2005 at 1:44 PM EDT

  Topic: Writing

• Choosing the Word of the Year

  A story only a language obsessive could enjoy.

  Jan 18 2005 at 2:32 PM EST

  Topic: Language

• Banished words for 2005

  Includes election jargon, “blog,” and “safe and effective.”

  Jan 1 2005 at 5:50 PM EST

  Topic: Language

• Dude

  Clive Thompson on dude’s current usage.

  Dec 13 2004 at 3:57 PM EST

  Topic: Language

• What to do about writer’s block

  The return of the (content as) king.

  Dec 12 2004 at 2:36 PM EST

  Topic: Writing

• Testing all copy editors

  The Toronto Star’s ombusman Nitpicker’s Quiz tests ones editing skills.

  Dec 12 2004 at 1:03 PM EST

  Topic: Writing

• The computer as novelist

  A New York Times essay wonders whether computers will ever be able to write novels as good as we can.

  Nov 22 2004 at 5:33 PM EST

  Topic: Writing