Archive for September, 2009

First Impressions of Meme – Yahoo’s answer to Twitter

Meme - Twitter Killer?

Meme - Twitter Killer?

After an invite from a colleague, I’ve been examining Yahoo’s Meme – yet another jumper on Twitter’s runaway bandwagon. I’ve not had time to form a full opinion yet, but I’ll share some of my initial impressions.
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Five Copywriting Mistakes To Infuriate Readers

Photo By Pedro Klien

Photo by Pedro Klien

Copywriters can generally be grouped into one of two camps. Those who ride roughshod over the rules of grammar and taste in order to get their message out, and those who are sticklers for the laws of the language.

I count myself very much in the former group, but there are a number of common copy mistakes that offend even my loose sense of what’s grammatically right or wrong.

Do blunders make your blood boil, or do you sympathise with the slipups of simpletons? Either way, you’ll be familiar with these five copy mistakes
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