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April 2011

Another Tech Bubble…

This is depressing: According to former Facebook “research scientist” Jeff Hammerbacher, “The best minds of my generation are thinking about + more

Want More Sales? Don’t Sound Like an Idiot

This is fascinating: a well-written product review (that is to say, with no spelling or grammar errors) tends to increase + more

Unsuck It

The pressure to use jargon—particularly in our profession—can be overwhelming. Why, just the other day, CK said he was going + more

Words Matter

We’ve always believed in the power of words and images working together. This video might help explain why the right + more

You’d Need to Hire a Professional to Wash All Those Fenestrae

My brother-in-law alerted me to some pretty fine writing from the world of real estate: Gracefully proportioned and built during + more

There’s a Flag on the Play

In this business, meetings can be soul-draining time hogs. These philosophy referee signals would sure speed things up.

“Flower, oh my Georgia!”

I think it was Erasmus who said that the desire to write grows with writing. It’s perhaps a bit presumptuous + more

Thought of the Week

The estimable Curtis “Caput” Smith, culinary instructor and prize-winning chef, once told me he’s convinced that “if every person on + more

NOT a Laughing Matter

It seems that any time someone laments the deterioration of our language, there’s a knee-jerk response from the perpetrators, smugly + more

This Day in History…

For some reason, Very Important Things seem to happen on April 12. 1633 Galileo goes on trial for heresy 1861 + more

Touch Wood

Words fail me.

Thursday Geekery

How much is Smaug worth? Michael Noer does the math—so you don’t have to.

Fight! Fight!

The biggest egos I’ve ever seen were in the advertising business—both on the client and the creative side. (We writers, + more

The Bovine Menace

Between 2003 and 2008, shark attacks in the United States resulted in the deaths of four people. During the same + more

Monday Miscellany

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher has it all: a creepy Victorian family, an English country manor, a brutal murder, and + more

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