Weblog Writing Links
A List Apart: How to Write a Better Weblog:
“After
posting my own short list of things that ought to be banned from weblogs,
I realized that a list of things to be encouraged would be more useful.
Some people are new to weblogging. Others want to raise the bar. In
the end, everybody wants better sites, and some of these suggestions
might help.”
Dennis A. Mahoney
A
List Apart: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
“Every revision
requires new writing, new words that become the essence of the site.
Living sites are only as good as today’s update. If the words
are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the
words
are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the
words aren’t there, people will shake their
heads and lament your untimely demise.”
Mark Bernstein
The
Weblog Handbook: Weblog Ethics
“Weblogs
are the mavericks of the online world. Two of their greatest strengths are
their ability to filter and disseminate information to a widely dispersed
audience, and their position outside the mainstream of mass media.
Beholden to no one,
weblogs point to, comment on, and spread information according to their own,
quirky criteria.”
Rebecca Blood
Writing
about Design
Concrete
“Yet,
while designers use drawings and images to portray our ideas, it is
difficult to deny that we also use words. Oftentimes, the precision
of our words becomes more important than drawing as we attempt to explain
our ideas to others as well as to ourselves. Because language is so
very important in all phases of the design process, and because language
is often and most importantly transmitted via the written word, it
is surprising that in our design education, writing is not a seminal
part of the curriculum.”
Student Publication at UC Berkeley
Writing about Art
How to Write About Art
“Students
often think that they are writing for the teacher, but this is a misconception;
when you write, you are the teacher. An essay
on art is an attempt to help someone to see the work as you see it.”
(Sylvan
Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art)
From Patricia Kieft's Art History Site
