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Yesterday this blog was menioned in the Palo Alto Weekly newspaper in an article entitled Living in a bloggers' world – Proliferation of blogs creates new communities within Silicon Valley .
It's about how different Palo Alto residents use blogs, and includes Jeff Clavier's Software Only, David Hornik's VentureBlog
Pamela Hornik’s Silicon Valley Moms Blog and …

A few months ago I posted on the 3 fundamental skills of web writing. I re-read that post and realized it needed a real life example to truly be useful. So let's recap.
Writing for the web is different because people read differently on the web. In fact, they don't read but they scan, so everything …

I went to a talk at the Silicon Valley Common Wealth Club last night which posed the questions: “Are blogs a valid grassroots form of journalism? Or is there too much chance for inaccuracy and not enough fact-checking?” with a panel of uberbloggers:
DAN GILLMOR, Grassroots Media
DAVID PESCOVITZ, co-editor, BoingBoing.net
JUDE BARRY, Catapult Strategies, www.sanjoseinside.com
DAVID SATTERFIELD, Managing …

If you look at the bottom of this blog's right hand column, you'll see this box: It means that you (and anybody else) are free to copy and distribute the contents of this blog, under the following conditions:
Attribution: You must give the original author credit (that would be me).
Noncommercial: You may not use this work …