Archives for January 2010

Here’s Penelope Trunk’s perspective on typos on blogs:

There is a new economy for writing. The focus has shifted toward taking risks with conversation and ideas, and away from hierarchical input (the editorial process) and perfection.

As the world of content and writing shifts, the spelling tyrants will be left behind. Here are five reasons why complaining about typos is totally stupid and outdated.

I don’t totally agree with her angle, but I do think we should be lenient about typos on blogs (and, as a time-pressed blogger, that’s a relief). It’s interesting to read the whole thing.

Fast Company has an excerpt from Chip and Dan Heath’s upcoming book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard.