So I'm in my second afternoon session at BlogHer, The Ten Types of Web Writing. Lisa Stone and Lynne D. Johnson have started out by opening up the floor to the question "What is web writing"
Dina Mehta -- who came here all the way from India -- commented: "I think web writing is about conversations."
Well, I can't argue with that. I think even if you're starting with a monologue, you'll end up with a conversation whether you want it or not.
Speaking of conversations, here's that IT Conversations podcast featuring Robert Scoble and Shel Israel (authors of Naked Conversations) that I mentioned in the session. Shel Israel, near the end, discusses some sophisticated measures they had to take in response to inappropriate comments on their blog.
More highlights from this BlogHer session...
Lisa Stone:
- "Own the fact that you're a writer. A lot of women, and especially bloggers, don't do that."
- "We think punctuation is a service to the community." She also made the point that punctuation is necessary for sight impaired people using voice readers.
Lynne D. Johnson:
- "Google is forever. Whatever you put online will stay online." ...Actually, I'd amend that: The Internet Archive is what's really forever, even if you remove pages from your site. And don't rely on privacy controls for services like MySpace or Facebook for information that could do you serious damage. Once you put content online, you never know where it'll end up. People can grab it and put it anywhere -- and do anythign to it (legal or not).
- "Use of white space can make your entry easy to print. That can be very important, depending on the type of content you publish."
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