Ye olde jargon
Randall Munroe, in his XKCD comic, nicely sums up both why you should avoid jargon and why you shouldn’t worry about it.
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Yahoo releases a “style guide for the web”
I love style guides almost as much as I love disagreeing with them. That’s why I’m excited to get my hands on Yahoo’s new house style book, The Yahoo! Style Guide. The style guide is available in hard copy (starting July 6) but much of the content is available on Yahoo’s style site at styleguide.yahoo.com.(…)
AP accepts “website” as one word
This is old news (in more ways than one), but the AP Stylebook now officially endorses “website” as the one-word term for, you know, websites. The Wired Epicenter blog has a nice write-up: Of course, the cool kids have been tossing around “website” for at least a decade. But that’s the way it is with(…)
1001 content strategy links
Via content strat doyenne Kristina Halvorson — check out Firehead’s page with “1001” content strategy links. I just fell ‘way behind in my reading!
Facebook vs Twitter
When Twitter adds a feature they say, “Now you can…”. When Facebook adds a feature they say, “Now you do…”.
Hand-drawn maps are like good technical documentation
I loved this excellent article by Julia Turner on Slate about hand-drawn maps — the kind of maps you draw so your cousin can find your house, or your buddy can find the boat launch. In these days of Map Quest, Google Maps, and turn-by-turn GPS directions, a hand-drawn map can seem like an anachronism.(…)