Well, this brightened up a wet, cold Sunday in British Columbia: The Dilbert Blog is up and running—and what's more, it's a TypePad site. I'm happy to report that Scott Adams is a good webwriter as well as a brilliant satirist: clear style, concise sentences, lots of paragraph breaks, and a well-designed layout.
Webwriting Resources
- A List Apart
- Angela Booth's Writing Blog
- BuzzMachine
- BuzzWhack: The Buzzword Compliant Dictionary
Essential reading. - Contented
Rachel McAlpine's web content blog; highly recommended. - Copyblogger
- cybersoc.com
- Developing Information Content for the World Wide Web
Excellent article. - EcontentMag.com: Digital Content Strategies and Resources.
- Editors Weblog
- Editors' Association of Canada - Design, typography and electronic publishing
- Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending Freedom in the Digital World
- First Monday
- George Orwell Diaries
- Gunning Fog Index
- Hampshire College Web Writing Style Guide
- if:book/Institute for the Future of the Book
- Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
Our first Webwriting guru, still pushing into new territory. - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
- Lee Hopkins
- LOHAD - random rumblings on marketing and more
- Netcraft
- Nielsen Norman Group: usability consulting, training & user research reports
- Official Google Blog
- Online Journalism Blog
- Online Journalism Review
- Online News Association
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
- Poynter Online - EyeTrack '07
- Poynter Online - Writing Tools
- Quality Web Content
Historic insights by Rachel McAlpine from the early days of the web. - Readability.info
Excellent way to see if you're writing as simply and clearly as possible. - ReadWriteWeb
- Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
- Rédaction (Français)
- Référencement, Design et Cie
- 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! - WebsiteTips.com
- Webwriting guidelines
- Webwriting-Magazin - vom Publizieren und Kommunizieren im Internet
- Macrowikinomics
- Wikipedia
- Wordyard
- Writing Great Ezines & Blogs from Patsi Krakoff
- Writing Matters
Web Writers and Editors
- Amrit Hallan
- Andrew Keen
- Ann Handley: Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
- Better Communication Results (Australia)
- Blognostifier
- C. Max Magee
- Catherine Dold
- CKPcreative (Craig Peters)
- Content Management Professionals
- Contentious - Amy Gahran
- corona labs communications
- Derek K. Miller
- Doc Searls
- 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
- Jerz's Literacy Weblog
- 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
- Nick Usborne
- Niki Taylor, Freelance Writer
- paolasales.com
- Patsi Krakoff: Writing Great Ezines & Blogs
- Paul Lima
- Rédaction Web, référencement et architecture de l’information | Richard Désormeau, rédacteur (Montréal)
- Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard
- Simon Young Writers
- Steve Outing
- Sébastien Bailly
- tech ronin
- The Editor’s Desk
- Todd Wong: GungHaggisFatChoy
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
Read The Tyee
June 2013
W4W Traffic
Recent Posts
- ‘Free My Internet’: Hundreds march in Singapore against website licensing regime
- Breaking the rules of online publishing
- Composition 101: A. Lincoln, Instructor
- What Twitter really looks like
- How to verify information from tweets: Check it out
- 2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the web
- Why are so many news sites still so unreadable? A few of the best and worst
- "Snow Fall": Another opinion
- "Snow Fall": Is this the new long form of webwriting?
- Le Blog de Jean-Paul Sartre
My Blogs
- Ask the English Teacher
Questions and answers about English usage. - Bridging the Income Gap
Why inequality is hazardous to your health. - Camila Vallejo in English
Tracking a political phenomenon - H5N1
News and resources about avian flu - 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 - Sointula
"Place of Harmony"—a remarkable community on BC's central coast. - Write a Novel
An online guide for fiction writers. - Sell Your Nonfiction Book
And use online resources to research, write, and publish it. - Writing Fiction
Advice and suggestions on how to write and sell short stories and fiction. - Writing for the Web
About the surprising new genres emerging on the Web.
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