"The collaboration on apps like GitHub should be exactly what happens on blog posts. The readers posting comments should read the entire article, and should offer constructive, polite criticism and suggestions, without any unnecessary negativity."

"I’d love to run, edit, and write for a publication bigger than just me and my blog. I don’t have time, so I won’t, at least not any time soon. But if I were to run a publication, I’d have a few rules."

"basically the best way to write an ebook"

"Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests."

"We believe there’s a niche waiting to be filled by someone publishing well-written technical pieces longer than the average blog article but shorter than books and making them available in a variety of formats. We are aiming at depth more than absolute timeliness; there are already plenty of outlets for the latest tech buzz."

"The distinction between good code and crap code is essentially literary. Good code emerges from an intuitive ability to separate structure from intention – to compose minimalist flows of well formed cues that balance direct statements of logic with modular flexibility. Holistic, pattern based thinking is important, treating the locality of a single statement in the context of its position in a larger system, and also understanding that this position is fluid, and may change as the system changes and grows." This is great.

"Those frustrated with Twitter are frustrated because they have a belief that a story needs a beginning, middle, and end. And that it should have all of those parts before it’s presented to them. What the hell am I supposed to learn from a tweet? The point of Twitter isn’t knowledge or understanding, it’s merely connective information tissue. It’s small bits of information carefully selected by those you’ve chosen to follow and its value isn’t in what they send, it’s how it fits into the story in your head."

Finally had a chance to read this. Very good; an Instapaper classic.

Best film review of the year.

"At some point during the dot-com bust it turned out that the written word was the payload, and regular people started using alternative browsing devices to access text from the web. Arguments about device-independent, semantic markup and graceful degradation suddenly have an additional halo of legitimacy because they affect everyone."

"The fastest way to improve your interface is to improve your copy-writing."

"Covering every current platform (PC/Mac/Linux, PSP, PS3, Xbox 360, DS, iPhone, N-gage), the 20 isn't just a list of independently made and under-appreciated games, it's a list of the games that celebrate what makes Offworld Offworld: the beautiful and the bizarre, and the games trying to push the medium forward and give us something we've never seen before, in whatever incremental way."

"An attack on the growing pretentiousness of American literary prose"

"An understanding of what makes a piece of copy really good is one more useful device a web designer or developer can slot into his or her mental tool belt."

"When people ask me for advice on blogging, I always respond with yet another form of the same advice: pick a schedule you can live with, and stick to it."

"A project management tool for writers. It won't try to tell you how to write - it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application."

"Content is the heart of a brilliant user experience. From the body content to the alt text to the footer, the words that shape the page lie at the very center of an engaging visit." Amen.

"A full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text."

"It’s time we designers stop thinking of ourselves as merely pixel people, and start thinking of ourselves as the creators of experiences. And when it comes to experience on the web, there’s no better way to create it than to write, and write well."

Accessibility statements are an ideal place to empower visitors to your website. Most accessibility statements are too technical, and don't necessarily address the needs of the visitor. Those that do address the needs of visitors often have the informatio

Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.

"One of reverb's editors offers some useful and challenging advice to new writers"

"Capital Community College Foundation has a good site on Grammar and Writing which contains a very intensive guide from word and sentence, paragraph to essay and research paper level for grammar and writing. Bookmark this handy site for reference!"

"Just as people don’t get design, they don’t usually get Web content either."