Monthly Archives: October 2008

To excerpt or not to excerpt

By Michael Becker | Published: October 31, 2008
A thought occurs to me. Is it bet­ter to excerpt your blog posts on the home page, essen­tially giv­ing the reader a lit­tle teaser that he then fol­lows to the article’s page; or do we throw the entire text of the arti­cle onto the home page and be done with it? Maybe if I had adver­tise­ments [...]
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A plethora of posts

By Michael Becker | Published: October 30, 2008
Andrew Sullivan caught my eye after I picked up the lat­est, redesigned, issue of the Atlantic with his arti­cle “Why I Blog.” The arti­cle refreshed me, reminded me that blog­ging can be cathar­tic and fun and that I shouldn’t worry about writ­ing mas­ter­pieces with each post. Writing blog posts, he argues, should be more human [...]
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Reading the newspaper

By Michael Becker | Published: October 30, 2008
David Sullivan at That’s the Press, Baby put up a post today that started me think­ing. Just what does it mean to read a news­pa­per any­more these days. Sullivan says that read­ing the some­times jan­gled assort­ment of arti­cles in your local print edi­tion isn’t all that much dif­fer­ent than non­lin­ear read­ing habits with online news sites. [...]
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New tools

By Michael Becker | Published: October 30, 2008
I’m always on the look­out for new tools to help me orga­nize the flood of var­ied infor­ma­tion that flows through my inbox and brain in the course of a given day. Lacking a per­sonal need, some­times I will look for tools that my employer or cowork­ers can use to stream­line the things we do every day.
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Christian Science Monitor quitting print

By Michael Becker | Published: October 28, 2008
The Christian Science Monitor announced Tuesday that it will no longer pub­lish its daily print edi­tion after April, switch­ing instead to a Web-only for­mat plus a new Sunday magazine.
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