The polls are now open for The 2008 Weblog Awards: Polls Archives. Even if you're not a fan of such competitions, you may find some worthwhile blogs in unexpected places.
« The Layoffs Will Be Blogged | Main | Obama's wisdom about email »
January 05, 2009
Verify your Comment
Previewing your Comment
This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
Webwriting Resources
- 100 Fun & Useful Search Engines for Writers
- 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. - Business Writing Today
- BuzzMachine
- BuzzWhack: The Buzzword Compliant Dictionary
Essential reading. - Contentious
Amy Gharan's must-read blog. - Copyblogger
- cybersoc.com
- Developing Information Content for the World Wide Web
Excellent article. - EcontentMag.com: Digital Content Strategies and Resources.
- Ecrire pour le web
- Editors Weblog
- Editors' Association of Canada - Design, typography and electronic publishing
- 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
- George Orwell Diaries
- Google Directory - Arts > Writers Resources > Style Guides
- Gunning Fog Index
- Hampshire College Web Writing Style Guide
- 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. - 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 2: Features and Personal Web Sites
- Online Journalism Blog
- Online Journalism Review
- Online News Association
- Online Writing List
If a grief shared is halved, and a joy shared is doubled, this is the place for Webwriters to share! - Online Writing Opportunities
- 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! - Quillpad - Typing in Hindi has never been easier
- Readability.info
- ReadWriteWeb
- Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
- 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
- WebsiteTips.com
- WebWord
Good site, frequently updated. - Webwriting guidelines
- Webwriting-Magazin - vom Publizieren und Kommunizieren im Internet
- Wikinomics
- Wikipedia
- Wordyard
- 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
- 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
May 2012
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
W4W Traffic
Recent Posts
- How the web is changing English
- Nielsen: iPad text resolution improves usability
- Webwriting with addictive technology
- Obama: "My message is simple"—but is it simplistic?
- Some supplementary materials for my book
- SOPA: Sites go dark as part of anti-piracy law protests
- Can you over-link a web news story?
- A Literary History of Word Processing
- A new direction in webwriting
- Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face
Recent Comments
- Alamgeer Hassan on Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse
- Alamgeer Hassan on A Literary History of Word Processing
- Web Outsourcing Gateway on Robert Fisk: The never-ending war against cliché and jargon
- Bill Swain on Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it
- Nicomi on The debate rages on: One space or two after a period?
- Leila Taghavi on Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it
- SEOVabMedia on Why you're not getting Twitter followers (and why you should care)
- slavoie on Why you're not getting Twitter followers (and why you should care)
- Cpwholesale on Webwriting style: AP vs. Yahoo?
- Alex O on Webwriting style: AP vs. Yahoo?
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.
Comments