What Do You Think About Writing For Exposure? (1)
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Every so often I get one of these offers - just write an article (or two, or three) for us free of charge and it will help you market your freelance writing business by giving you exposure as a writer on our website. You probably know the kind of offer that I mean. If you’re a freelance writer, then you’ve probably gotten some of these offers yourself. Now, a decade or two ago, this type ...
S Africa to withhold Zimbabwe aid (1)
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South Africa said it would withhold aid for Zimbabwe until a representative government is in place, in what appeared to be the first punitive measure by a regional country to enforce a power-sharing agreement
Copywriting Tip: Make Your Point Without Confusing People (2)
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Have you ever read an article or advertisement and when you finish it, you say to yourself, “What the heck did I just read?” For the copywriter or advertising agency, this means failure. The last thing you want to do when writing copy is confuse your reader. Mixed messages and jumbled meanings cause readers to tune out and turn off. When that happens, you lose the sale or fail to reach the goal. There are ...
Copywriting Tip: Make Your Point Without Confusing People (2)
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Have you ever read an article or advertisement and when you finish it, you say to yourself, “What the heck did I just read?” For the copywriter or advertising agency, this means failure. The last thing you want to do when writing copy is confuse your reader. Mixed messages and jumbled meanings cause readers to tune out and turn off. When that happens, you lose the sale or fail to reach the goal. There are ...
30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward) [Writing] (100)
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Using a data analysis tool that monitors new books, research papers, broadcast transcripts and news sources, Oxford University came up with a list of the top 10 most irritating phrases. Headed by "At the end of the day" and capped with "It's not rocket science," it's both an eye-rolling exercise in familiarity and a good lesson in phrases to avoid in your own presentations and writing. The readers of the BBC's online magazine, however, add ...
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Charles said:
People don't hate those phrases... they just hate the contexts within which they're brought up.
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Laurasusan said:
Kevin Purdy uses "an eye-rolling exercise in...." with no irony whatsoever.
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eEditor said:
11- Feet planted firmly in the air.12- Running around with our hair on fire.13- I could care less.
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Tyson Crosbie said:
I probably am terribly guilty of this. <-- that is probably one of them!! LOL
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Ganius Tanuel said:
Here comes the irony: this LifeHacker post is so pointless that I feel like to share it with you. Go ahead and read it if you want to, but I've done my part long, long time ago and yeah I couldn't care less because it is what it IS. There, I said it. If anyone tried to act smart by avoiding those oh-so-cliches, you can go whine all the way because I couldn't care less. Again. I couldn't care less.
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Alex said:
I really dislike lists like these. It's not because I don't think people should be allowed their opinions of what they find irritating (though the types of people for whom they are irritating typically are thinking too hard about the phrases themselves in an effort to make themselves look smarted), it's more because most of these aren't cliches but rather simply adverbial expressions that are quite common. Especially when the list comes from somewhere like Oxford University, passing itself off as "educated knowledge". Clearly none of the people claiming these to be offensive, cliche phrases understands anything about Descriptive Linguistics; the phrases are there because people use them for some pragmatic import. It would be one thing to say they should not be used in scholarly writing; it's another thing entirely to say they should not be used. I find it telling that most of the people in the second list claim ashamedly that they themselves use the phrases they hate!
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Convoluted said:
Guilty of a couple
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ZaMoose said:
Any of those sound familiar?
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Andrew said:
In the spirit of the legendary George Carlin...
Keystream serves innovative online video ads (1)
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Online video advertising start-up Keystream officially launched its innovative in-stream, interactive ad service today in the U.S. The company has been in incubation mode testing its product with a media company in the U.K., and the company's founders, Schuyler Cullen, CEO, and Ed Ratner, president, think their model is now poised for big expansion in the U.S. Keystream's technology searches online video content for intuitive locations of static space where ads can be placed unobtrusively. ...
Tuning Into Scifi TV Episode #3 (1)
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Watercooler topics - Dr. Who, Heroes, Dollhouse, Lost, Futurama Back Porch topics - Fringe, Getting Your Friends To Watch Shows You Like, Supernatural, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica Hosted by Wendy Hembrock, Brent Barrett and Kevin Bachelder. Edited by Brent Barrett Theme song graciously provided by Beatnik Turtle Show Notes - Tennant leaving Dr Who Staffing Changes for Heroes Dollhouse premieres on Friday 2/13 Fox’s Slate Shuffle a Long-Term Strategy ABC Sets Return ...
Une analyse de "Après la démocratie", le dernier ouvrage d'Emmanuel Todd (1)
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On n'aurait tort de ne voir dans "Après la démocratie" – l'ouvrage d'Emmnuel Todd qui vient de parître – qu'un pamphlet contre Sarkozy, Guaino, les économistes officiels, les lieux commun de l'époque. Au-delà de cet aspect très conjoncturel, « Après la démocratie » prolonge une réflexion engagée dans l'illusion économique il y a 10 ans. Le point de départ du livre, c'est le constat selon lequel la grille d'analyse classique de la pensée toddienne qui ...
“What’s new with Apache Solr” now available at IBM developerWorks (1)
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What’s new with Apache Solr. My latest article on Apache Solr, title “What’s New with Apache Solr” is now available over at IBM developerWorks. It covers some of the new features like spell checking, Data Import Handler, distributed search, editorial results placement (a.k.a. “paid placement”), SolrJ and a variety of other pieces. Hope it is helpful… Feel free to give me any feedback.
Recriminations Watch: Dr. Coburn Stiffens The Spine (4)
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Dr/Sen. Tom Coburn was among the first Republican senators to release a statement on the election results. Is a challenge to McConnell in the offing? "On November 4, the American people had the opportunity to choose between two candidates with the character and temperament to be not just good presidents but great presidents. John McCain ran the best campaign he could in a very difficult environment and he showed the country, once again, with his ...
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Excerpt: "Our president-elect offered an olive branch to Republicans last night to 'heal the divides that have held back progress.' We would be wise to accept his offer, roll up our sleeves and work together on areas where we can agree. The unmistakable mandate everyone in public office can take from this election is that it's time to define a 'new kind of politics' with our actions, not just our words. The space between the parties is a vast frontier of consensus and possibility. The American people have always called this area 'common sense.' It's time for elected officials to put aside their careerist aspirations in service to this ideal."
한국어 위키백과, 왜 참여가 적은가? - Channy’s Blog (2)
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오늘 Open Knowledge Insight 컨퍼런스 마지막에 흥미로운 패널 토의가 있었다. 한쪽에는 위키백과 편집진이 다른 한쪽에는 블로그와 신지식을 주로 다루는 사람들이 앉았다. 흥미로운 점은 위키백과 편집진들은 평소에 개인적이거나 주관적인 글을 쓰기 꺼려하는 분들이 많았다는 점이다. 케골님은 자기를 외부에 드러내는 것에 대해 부담이 있다고도 하셨다. 한편으로 객관적 지식 창고를 만드는 일을 하는 사람들의 성향을 엿볼수 있었다. 가급적 (인생에서) 주관적 성향을 배제하고자 하는 분들이지 않나 하는 생각이 들었다. 이야기는 한국어 위키 백과가 대중화 되기 어려운 문제로 "저작 도구"로 ...
