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Shel Holtz
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Shut up and write

Maciej Ceglowski, former oil painter and current Perl programmer, has posted a manifesto on audioblogging on Idle Words, his blog. Ceglowski points to a couple of good examples, but then derides the whole concept as a contradiction of the Web’s purpose. For example, he says, you can’t choose what you want to hear and what you want to skip. You can’t read ahead. You can’t follow links. (And to make this point, he offers a ridiculously long link you’d be hard-pressed to copy down as he reads it). People read faster than speakers can speak.

“Ask yourself,” Ceglowski says, “is the key to making your site more interesting really to add rich media?  Or is it possible that if you took more care in your writing, said something passionate, grammatical, interesting, and pleasant to read, it would actually make more of a difference?”

06/15/05 | 0 Comments | Shut up and write

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