I love style guides almost as much as I love disagreeing with them. That’s why I’m excited to get my hands on Yahoo’s new house style book, The Yahoo! Style Guide. The style guide is available in hard copy (starting July 6) but much of the content is available on Yahoo’s style site at styleguide.yahoo.com.(…)
This is old news (in more ways than one), but the AP Stylebook now officially endorses “website” as the one-word term for, you know, websites. The Wired Epicenter blog has a nice write-up: Of course, the cool kids have been tossing around “website” for at least a decade. But that’s the way it is with(…)
Via content strat doyenne Kristina Halvorson — check out Firehead’s page with “1001” content strategy links. I just fell ‘way behind in my reading!
When Twitter adds a feature they say, “Now you can…”. When Facebook adds a feature they say, “Now you do…”.
I loved this excellent article by Julia Turner on Slate about hand-drawn maps — the kind of maps you draw so your cousin can find your house, or your buddy can find the boat launch. In these days of Map Quest, Google Maps, and turn-by-turn GPS directions, a hand-drawn map can seem like an anachronism.(…)
You can’t play Facebook games on the iPad. The much anticipate Apple iPad everything-killer is coming, due to arrive in consumers’ hands this Saturday. Previews and reviews abound, and while there seems to be a lot to love about the iPad there are also a few complaints. One of the biggest gripes is the device’s(…)
