What Makes A Successful Blog?
D. Keith Robinson a Seattle Web designer, has a concise list of qualities needed for A Successful Blog.
He doesn't offer any shattering surprises, but it's good to see well-organized common sense.
Webwriting Resources
- A List Apart
- A List Apart: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
- Angela Booth's Writing Blog
- Anne Wayman—The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource
- BBC Styleguide Articles
- Blog Flux (Directory)
- BlogWrite for CEOs
- Books, Jobs and other Resources for Copywriters
Nick Usborne's Excess Voice site is a treasure trove. - BuzzMachine
- BuzzWhack: The Buzzword Compliant Dictionary
Essential reading. - Citizendium
- Contentious
Amy Gharan's must-read blog. - Copyblogger
- cybersoc.com
- Developing Information Content for the World Wide Web
Excellent article. - Ecrire pour le web
- Edit-Work
Not an active site, but content is worth a visit. - Editors Weblog
- Editors' Association of Canada - Design, typography and electronic publishing
- Effective Web Writing
An article I published in 2001. - Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending Freedom in the Digital World
- Electronic Text: Writing Tips
Great resource from Dennis Jerz at Seton Hill University. - Excess Voice
- Finding Information on the Internet
Useful guide from University of California at Berkeley. - First Monday
- flyte: what works online
- Google Directory - Arts > Writers Resources > Style Guides
- Gunning Fog Index
- Human Factors Newsletter
Useful advice on writing for the computer screen. - if:book/Institute for the Future of the Book
- Introduction to Online Journalism
- Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
Our first Webwriting guru, still pushing into new territory. - Lee Hopkins
- Netcraft
- Nielsen Norman Group: usability consulting, training & user research reports
- Official Google Blog
- Online Journalism 2: Features and Personal Web Sites
- Online Journalism Blog
- Online Journalism Review
- Online Writing List
If a grief shared is halved, and a joy shared is doubled, this is the place for Webwriters to share! - ONLINE! Citation Styles
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
- Poynter Online - EyeTrack '07
- Poynter Online - Web Tips
- Poynter Online - Writing Tools
- Quality Web Content
Great stuff from New Zealand! - Readability.info
- ReadWriteWeb
- Rédaction (Français)
- Référencement, Design et Cie
- Saila.com
A site with good advice on Website creation, news about online news, and other matters of concern to Web writers. - SEO copywriting: Learn writing for search engines best practices.
- Social Media
- The Cluetrain Manifesto
An excellent polemic on good and bad online communication. - We We Calculator
Good way to remember the "you" attitude in online writing! - Web Design Ideas Inspirational and Informational Blog
- Web Standards New Zealand: Passionate about excellence on the web
- WebWord
Good site, frequently updated. - Webwriting guidelines
- Wikinomics
- Wikipedia
- WOW Technology Minute
- Writers Remember
- Writing for the web
Very good Australian "mini-course." - Writing for the Web: Comparing Pages & Screens
- Writing Great Ezines & Blogs from Patsi Krakoff
Books About Webwriting
Jakob Nielsen: Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity
Nielsen is a pioneer in this field, and always worth reading.Steve Krug: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Lively and readable!Editors of EEI Press: E-What? A Guide to the Quirks of New Media Style and Usage
When you can't make up your mind about email or e-mail, this usage handbook can help.- Crawford Kilian: Escribir para la Web
Mi libro en español. Ediciones Deusto - Rachel McAlpine: Global English for Global Business
Excellent guide to writing English for those with English as a second or third language. Jonathan Price: Hot Text: Web Writing that Works
Perhaps the most exhaustive discussion on writing for the Web in its many forms.- Alexandre Campos Silva: Internet para educadores
Bom livro! Proem Editora Nick Usborne: Net Words: Creating High-Impact Online Copy
Passionately argued introduction to writing sales copy for the Web.Mario R. Garcia: Redesigning Print for the Web
Emphasis is on adapting newspaper stories to Web sites, but the principles apply to other print media as well.Rachel McAlpine: Web Word Wizardry A Net-Savvy Writing Guide
Lively guide to writing for the Web, with some clear technical advice as well.
Online Magazines
- Atlantic Online
- Brazzil Magazine
- BYTE.com
- Common Dreams
- Crooks and Liars
- Digital Web Magazine
- Dooney's Cafe
- Dragon Fire
- eXile
- Google Directory - Arts > Online Writing > E-zines
- Google Directory - Arts > Online Writing > E-zines > Directories
- Hyphen | Asian America Unabridged
- January Magazine
- London Review of Books
- New West
- New York Review of Books
- Online Magazines in Categories from the World at Large
- rabble.ca
- RADAR: Pop, Politics, Scandal, Style
- Raw Foods News Magazine
- Ricepaper | The Magazine about Creative Asian Canadians
- Salon
- Slashdot
- Slate
- Straight Goods
- The Black Commentator
- The Dominion: Canada's Grassroots Newspaper
- The Huffington Post
- The Raw Story
- The Tyee
- Tolerance.ca
- Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Foreign-Language Resources
Brasileiros
- bienvenue chez moi
- Every flower is perfect
- Farofa... Blog sobre negócios, meio ambiente, cultura e diversāo
- Fuleiragem
- Kelly Gomes: Consultoria Empresarial
- Liberal Libertario Libertino
- Links interessantes - Meira da Rocha e Associados
- Mercedes Sanchez Usabilidade
- Metablogue
- Paola Sales
- Para quem não entende os blogs - Webinsider
- Sopa de Pedra
- The Landless Workers' Movement
- V I R A w e b
- Webwriting (Brasil)
Read The Tyee
June 2008
Buy Writing for the Web 3.0 in Canada
This is also the link for purchasers outside North America.
Buy Writing for the Web 3.0 in USA
Buy Writing SF & Fantasy in Canada/World
Buy Writing SF & Fantasy in USA
W4W Traffic
Recent Posts
- A Handy Reference
- How we read online
- Webwriters, meet your great-grandfather
- Why a Book About Blogging Fails
- Food for thought for webwriters
- Nielsen on Website Readers' Reading Habits
- 50 Open Source Resources for Online Writers
- The Politics of Cyberspace
- More spring cleaning
- US Democrats waging web war
Recent Comments
- Elizabeth on How we read online
- Elizabeth on Webwriters, meet your great-grandfather
- m7levels on A new resource in French
- Joseph on Nielsen on Website Readers' Reading Habits
- Paola Sales on Way more news sites, way less news
- Debra on Not quite getting it
- anitaspen on The 2007 List of Banished Words
- Paola Sales on Holiday Wishes
- Romeo Vitelli on On Foggy Writing
- Craig and Lois Strachan on Is the Kindle the Next Big Thing?
BlogsCanada
Web Writers and Editors
- Amrit Hallan
- Andrew Keen
- Ann Handley: Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
- Better Communication Results (Australia)
- C. Max Magee
- Catherine Dold
- Christine Rowlands, Writer and Editor
- Content Management Professionals
- Contentious - Amy Gahran
- corona labs communications
- Derek K. Miller
- Donna Papacosta
- El Blog de Manfatta (español)
- Elizabeth Varley: Online Content UK
- Faun deHenry: Learning ERP Systems
- Freelance Writing Jobs
- Guy Kawasaki
- J-Source.ca
- Jill E. Vaile
- Joel Ronez: L'écrit Web
- Julia Temlyn: Writing, Editing, & Proofreading
- Karl Swedberg
- Kim Pearson
- Kivi Leroux Miller
- Lloyd Lemons
- Malcolm Davison
- Marketing Your Business - Writing for the Web
- Merry Bruns
- Meryl Evans
- Michael McCann
- Mick Doherty
- Miraz Jordan
- Muriel Vandermeulen, écrire pour le web
- My Name is Kate
- Niki Taylor, Freelance Writer
- Patsi Krakoff: Writing Great Ezines & Blogs
- Paul Lima
- Rédaction Web, référencement et architecture de l’information | Richard Désormeau, rédacteur (Montréal)
- Simon Young Writers
- Steve Outing
- Sébastien Bailly
- tech ronin
- Todd Wong: GungHaggisFatChoy
- Web Content Writer Tips from JCM Enterprises
- Yvette Nielsen: Writing for the web courses, coaching and tips
My Blogs
- Ask the English Teacher
Questions and answers about English usage. - Books and Writers
Literary news and reviews - Bridging the Income Gap
Why inequality is hazardous to your health. - H5N1
News and resources about avian flu - Homage to Arrhenius
News and resources about climate change - Jou Tou and Silk Road Music
About a couple of remarkable Vancouver world-music groups. - Neat Stuff
Serendipitous discoveries around the Web. - On Education
Schools for a civil society. - Pioneers
Blogging the Black pioneers of British Columbia - Prototype
About blogging in education: an idea whose time has not yet come.
Some of My Books
- Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
My first book for adults, great fun to research and write, published in 1978. - 2020 Visions: The Futures of Canadian Education
Published in 1995, outdated in some respects, but some issues in education never change (unfortunately). The Fall of the Republic
In a parallel timeline, 1990s America discovers the chronoplanes: parallel worlds at different points in history.Rogue Emperor
The hijacking of the Roman Empire, 100 AD, by 21st-century Christian fundamentalists, in the second of the Chronoplane Wars novels.The Empire of Time
My first novel, published in 1978, but the last in the Chronoplane Wars trilogy.Gryphon
"Write a space opera," my editor said. So I did, with some nanotech thrown in.Tsunami
A companion novel to Icequake, set mostly in California.Icequake
A disaster thriller (Antarctic ice sheet surges into ocean), dated but still fun.Eyas
Originally published in 1982, and still the novel I'm most proud of.
Dear Crawford
I end my master degree and you are cited in my dissertation. Do you remember a commnet in zaptlogs helping a teacher?
In the text:
"A rede de sociabilidades tende a fazer novas conexões e movimentar as existentes. De repente, aquele outro que não conhecemos adentra o nosso espaço e faz ouvir sua voz.
... comentário externo:
Bom dia! I hope my education blog "Prototype" will have some value for you. You're also welcome to visit my course blogs [...] [Crawford Kilian*, 07/12/2003]
*Muitas vezes, a colaboração vem de longe. Crawford Kilian é professor e escritor, em Vancouver, BC, Canadá. Edita, também o weblog Writing for the Web – http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/ . Mais informações em http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/dept/cmns/crofpers.html."
best regards ,
Suzana
Posted by:Su | August 14, 2004 at 05:54 PM