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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Blog writing

David Parmet set up a backchannel for the New Communications Forum, so several of us were IRC-chatting during a number of presentations, including David Weinberger’s. During his keynote, Weinberger talked about the human voice of blogs but also noted that you don’t have to be a good writer to blog. True, but I noted that I appreciate good writing and prefer well-written blogs to badly-written ones. I do read blogs by people who can’t spell, make a subject and verb agree, or place an apostrophe correctly to save their lives—but only if their ideas are compelling.

I’m not talking a pretentious writing here, but language is the tool we use for persuasion. Isn’t it more likely that a good writer will make a case effectively than one who can’t use language effectively?

There was some pushback on the backchannel. I thought I’d throw it out here. How important is good writing on the blogs you read?

Posted by Shel on 03/08 at 03:44 PM
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