I’m always impressed with the participation level we get at ACES conferences. This year I’ve met more people in all types of copy editing jobs who want to get involved in what ACES does than ever before.
Also, there was definitely more tweeting at this conference than ever before. Tweeting AP Stylebook decisions as they were [...]
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Embrace the Web because readers have
Paula Devlin says she’s learned to stop worrying about the Web and embrace it instead.
After more than 25 years in a variety of roles on the copy desk, Devlin was named an online news editor at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
Here’s what it has taught her:
It’s fun to be back in the breaking news business, [...]
Reading on the Web is different than print so writing needs to be different too.
Studies have shown 79 percent of Web readers scan pages instead of reading them, Yahoo’s Trystan Bass told editors.
She offered five tips for writing or editing on the Web.
Frontload information. Put keywords at the beginning of sentences.
Use brief keyword-loaded headings throughout [...]
I’ll have two “Captains” and an order of Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage, please
It was great to be in a room this morning with three language greats — Merrill Perlman, Bill Walsh and Ben Zimmer.
You can follow all three on Twitter to see what they’re saying about language issues: just search for @meperl, Bill’s @TheSlot and @bgzimmer.
And it’s good to know that the experts on language and grammar [...]
When you catch a memoir, chart it
Memoirs aren’t always “truthy” stories.
Using Stephen Colbert’s concept of “truthiness,” keynote speaker Ben Yagoda analyzed the accuracy of autobiographies at the ACES banquet Saturday night.
“How ‘truthy’ does a memoir have to be?” said Yagoda, a professor of English and journalism at the University of Delaware and author of “Memoir: A History” and “When You Catch [...]
