Today we revisit my roots as an English teacher. I know – hard to believe, right? Well, this old teacher is mortified by the state of writing across the web. Not that I expect everyone to be Hemingway or even Hunter Thompson. But I’m not talking about style or even substance. It’s the grammar, stupid. Continue reading
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Where’s The Beef?
I can hear you holding your collective breath: where is today’s post? In all candor, I’m tapped out. I got nothing. Call in the reliever. It’s not as if there isn’t anything going on (with a reminder that we avoid politics). There is a new study on who clicks on online ads (fewer people than a year ago and only 8% of Internet users now account for 85% of all clicks). I have thoughts on that but there’s already been a lot written on the topic so I don’t think I have much to add. Then again, that may be a lesson in and of itself. Continue reading
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Night and Day
There’s an old saw about only having one chance to make a first impression and it got to be that way because it’s true. It never failed to surprise me when companies would come calling with their sales pitch and it was obvious in the first three minutes that they hadn’t done their homework. It was also sort of surprising that in many cases they’d do a lame job and expect that you’d have them back another time to make amends after they got blown up in the discussion period. Continue reading
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