Questions tagged [blog]
Questions about blogs and blogging.
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Common errors for a non-native English writer starting a blog in English?
I am not a native English speaker, and I would like to start a blog in English. I cannot say that I have a lot of experience blogging, but I had a blog in my native language for more than an year, and ...
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What is the proper usage and etiquette for using press releases from an external source on a website?
I recently started a MLB baseball website. On the site, we focus on covering the Kansas City Royals and all of the Royals' minor league affiliate teams. For each minor league affiliate, I receive all ...
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substitute for however [closed]
I find myself using however much too often. What's the best way around this? Should I find a list of substitutes? I'm thinking a better approach would be to fix my overall sentence structure and ...
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“Lacking meat”, “Content-free”, and poor defense-development. Please critique my work [closed]
After releasing my first blogging article I received some less-than-stellar reviews citing that I "managed to write a blog post that hypes up your proposed solution to "hacking" TV......
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How do I use my blog as a platform for practice and improvement?
I've recently followed the advice of our very own Jeff Atwood and started a blog site in order to become a better writer and communicator.
My goal is to improve my skill at technical writing and ...
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Will blogging my fiction limit its ability to be traditionally published later?
Somewhere, don't ask me where, I picked up the idea that publishers don't like works that the public has already been able to access. When a family member suggested I post short pieces of fiction to a ...
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Ideal blog post size and frequency
Especially when you consider pro-blogging, or blogging with a definite aim and niche, what is the ideal word count to stick around for your average article, and how often is it a good compromise to ...
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What are the challenges of converting blog content to a publishable work?
I have been actively participating in the "blogging world" and have developed a substantial portfolio of 25-75 word "rants" on a variety of topics related to my specialty.
I would like to know how ...
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Is this blog post clear and coherent?
I wrote a pseudo-technical blog post trying to apply some game theory concepts to s/w startup industry. This is my first serious attempt at tech blog writing. Iwas left feeling disappointed by the ...
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What's the proper etiquette/format for updating a blog post?
I've been doing websites for 16 years, but am new to writing a blog. Websites pages change all the time, but it seems to me that blog posts are relatively static once they've been posted.
If I want ...
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What can I write to improve reader participation at this blog?
I work for a costume company that has a company blog intended to inspire costuming and general ideas. We focus on Halloween sales, but we also have Renaissance and Oktoberfest themed costumes that ...
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What makes for interesting travel writing/blogging?
I wanted to hear a few words about travel writing. What qualities make for the most engrossing stories, especially for readers who are just sort of gauging their interest? I've read a number of ...
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Formatting blog posts like the pros
I am new to writing. I have seen Jeff Atwood's blog and I am really impressed how he writes. I have seen a similar manner on wordpress docs too. I am still confused with some issues while writing. ...
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Mixing topics in a blog
I was reading this Jakob Nielsen Alertbox about the top 10 weblog design mistakes. Mistake #8 was:
Mixing Topics
If you publish on many different
topics, you're less likely to attract
a ...
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Please help me polish this paragraph. [closed]
I'm learning English as a foreign language. In one of my writings, one paragraph goes:
But it's not saying we just indulge ourselves and turn into wild beasts. We train our brain hard so that we ...
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Critical review of blog post
I wrote a blog post a long time back. For this post I chose a writing style very different from what I'd read or what I'd seen before. Some guys did criticize me and others did acknowledge me for the ...
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Feedback on technical blog post
I've recently composed a blog post about World of Warcraft Authenticators and would love for some feedback as per the quality of writing.
Obviously no matter how many times I read it there's no ...
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Should one blog in a few languages?
Greetings. I've been blogging for a while now and I do it in Russian. But, some of my English-speaking... AHEM "Internet-friends" are unable to read my personal blog, 'cause they're just not familiar ...
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Quality of my blog writing [closed]
I came here from Jeff Atwood's blog where he mentions that writing a blog can clear your own internal thought processes and that you should take feedback about your writing so that you can improve. ...
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What are some popular blogs that accept submissions?
Although I maintain a virtually unknown personal blog about videogames, I like the idea of writing blog-style content that can reach a wider, more general audience. Recently a Facebook friend of mine ...
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What are some helpful blogs for memoir writing?
I am interested in finding more online resources for memoir writing. Any ideas?
