Thanks. Here's what I left out. Once you've got Pareto down, remind yourself about Parkinson's Law, which says that a task will expand in...
Good idea. I just snooped around MS Word 2003's "Insert -- Symbol" and didn't find any symbols or special characters that were reverse letters.
My biggest breakthrough in time "management" came not from doing more things or doing different things -- this will drive you insane -- but from...
I know countless writers who scoff at spell checkers. You need a human. Have a buddy read your pages, or your Aunt Beru in Topeka or whoever....
Write what you do. Share your advice. If your blog is in a market-researched niche you know nothing about, then learn enough to say something...
Holy Cow, Joel. Don't you have homework or something? Just kidding -- when I was your age, the internet didn't exist. I tend to lean toward...
Just start the darn thing, either way. It does take time to build traffic, and to build content on your blog.
Google will find it eventually. But if your blog's niche is not very unique (that is, if there are a lot of websites about your topic, and those...
Yep -- the freebie hosting on wordpress.com is very limited. Very little code works. On the other hand, the free hosting at blogspot seems to run...
The content of the blog might make a difference here. If your perspective as a non-English speaker would come into play at all, then shaky...
Knol. Chrome. Wiki. Squidoo. We lead odd lives. For copywriters starting out and trying to build authority and a portfolio, why not write a...
That's the first time I've seen anyone other than me argue that passive voice might be preferred under some circumstances. Right on! For me, it...
Informally... Use "than" to compare (as in: oranges are better than apples). Use "then" to say what happened next (as in: I ate an apple, then I...
So 301'ing doesn't work so well any more. That's too bad... but I'll still ask: what's a 301?
Alas, real as can be. I have a site that appeared in Google searches within a few hours of me creating it. After 48 hours, it disappeared. It...
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