Category: Definitions

Disaster fighter nixes “solutions”

Posted by: Stephen Baker on January 29

Dr. Eric Rasmussen is one of the people who will be spending Google’s millions to battle disasters. But he tells Helen Walters that he has banned the word “solution” in…

Editing my story: a scatological impasse

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 30

An editor had a problem with one sentence in my (harsh) review of T-Mobile’s sleek new smartphone, The Dash. The sentence: “Later in the week, when I belly-ached about…

Unhappy datum

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 27

Looking through this grammar check (ex Pro-blogger) I came across one of my bêtes noires (note fancy French plural.). Datum. It’s the singular of data. But does anyone use…

Web 3.0

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 24

My assignment in Monaco was to lead a panel in defining Web 3.0—this when people are struggling to get their heads around Web 2.0. I wouldn’t say we emerged from…

Help, the aliens are posting… blogs!

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 01

Lots of hand-wringing now that Technorati appears to be indexing the hordes of MySpacers. Aaron Brazell notes that bloggers on MySpace “make the ultimate mistake of calling blog entries “blogs”….

There’s no such thing as the blogosphere? A response

Posted by: Stephen Baker on February 18

Former Gawker blogger Choire Sicha maintains that bloggers aren’t connected to each other. This person either hasn’t read about chaos theory, or doesn’t believe it.

That Wi-Fi Thread….

Posted by: Heather Green on November 08

Why it’s too late to try to repudiate the moniker Wireless Fidelity when it comes to Wi-Fi.

Rid the world of “solutions”

Posted by: Stephen Baker on November 08

Perhaps the worst tech jargon abuse is the abduction of the word “solution.”

Why run from the word “refugee?”

Posted by: Stephen Baker on September 05

Refugee is not a dirty word

Blog corrections: A new literary style?

Posted by: Stephen Baker on August 08

Corrections or quips: Are strike-throughs on blogs turning into veiled winks at the reader?

And the Winner is…

Posted by: Heather Green on June 08

Why blogs over message boards? Common Craft takes a look.

Blogs may be old hat to you, but…

Posted by: Stephen Baker on May 05

Feedback from readers shows that many are still in the dark on blogs

Revving up RSS

Posted by: Heather Green on April 26

Links to a couple of primers on using RSS.

Confession: Maybe there’s no such thing as a blog style

Posted by: Stephen Baker on April 26

An attempt to write a magazine article in a ‘bloggy style’ is wrapped up in contradictions. As blogs evolve, ‘blog-style’ will become as meaningless as ‘typewriter-style.’

Survey Says

Posted by: Heather Green on April 22

Among the odds and ends in my inbox today, I found some results of a survey of 200 of the “top interactive thinkers” from this year’s South by SouthWest Interactive…