Just as we use the ‘inverted pyramid’ model to organise information on a web page or in a news article, the same top-heavy principle applies to writing headlines for web content.
This image (right) is a snippet from my RSS feedreader. It shows three headlines from the Boston Globe’s education section. Because the feedreader appears in [...]
When configuring your web content management system (CMS) it’s important to pay attention to the little details, let you end up with something like this article from the ABC News web site.
The byline says the article was posted 7 minutes ago and updated 8 minutes ago, which is logically absurd.
I saw similar inconsistencies on other [...]
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has asked universities to provide information about their researchers’ publication records, so that it can test a suite of performance indicators. The aim, apparently, is to propose that the new performance indicators form part of the Commonwealth Government’s proposed Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) framework.
Peter Merholz observes that conferences [...]
Oh yeah, I know that feeling…
Source: xkcd.com, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, maths and language.
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In the last 12 months or so, very occasionally, I’ve heard somebody say “tweaked to” instead of “twigged to”, in the sense of “reaching an understanding of” an idea or fact.
Usually it comes from someone in the under-30 age group.
This week, I spotted an example in the written word:
It seems that even in spite of [...]