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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Hard-copy vs. electronic editing

Friday, August 28, 2009

Here’s link to an interesting blog post from the folks at 37signals about hard-copy markup using copy editor’s marks vs. electronic editing using track changes in Word. The post and most of the comments lean towards hard-copy editing being superior. My experience is that electronic editing is far simpler, faster, and easier for authors to [...]

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Small Business BC Entrepreneur Showcase

Friday, August 21, 2009

 
I’m pleased to be a sponsor of the Small Business BC Entrepreneur Showcase, a networking event for Vancouver entrepreneurs happening on October 7, 2009. You can learn more about the event at http://smallbusinessbc.ca/showcase.
I’ll also be contributing a great doorprize for the event, so keep an eye out for details on the doorprizes page!

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Mom, Inc.: Cover article for Make it Business August issue

Monday, August 3, 2009

Here’s the cover article I wrote for the August 2009 issue of Make It Business Magazine.

Mom, Inc.

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What Went Wrong? The NYT corrects 7 errors in one published article

Sunday, August 2, 2009

A surprising number of writing and editing mistakes combined to result in the New York Times publishing an article about Walter Cronkite that contained a whopping seven errors, including incorrect names and dates, among other problems.
When I was in journalism school, we were automatically docked 50% on any assignment that had a name spelled wrong [...]

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