The command line is a wonderful thing, and a developer skilled in the ways of vi (or emacs if you must) can build great applications; IBM thinks developers can do even better with its Eclipse IDE.

If you have more than a passing interest in writing a business book, this is worth checking out.

A lot of buzz in the SEO community lately has been focused on the value of creating compelling content as if it’s a new idea.

Here’s a new site I learned about via email (see, Steve learns). It’s called Glypho.

So magazine vet Simon Dumenco is saying that blogs are just writing and that he underlying creative/media function remains exactly the same.

Ahh, those hour-long taxi lines are so fun! And that was at midnight last night.

Another Internet Bubble? Not according to John Battelle writing in The New York Times Friday.

Hey you. Yes, you. You know who you are. We thought you had taken care of these web writing “demons.” But it turns out you need a little reminder.

There’s a deadly myth about search engine optimization and writing for the web: that good SEO and good writing don’t go together.

In order to tap the huge stream of targeted traffic an internet search engine can provide a website you need to master a few common sense principles when crafting your webpages.

Everyone on the web thinks they can write a FAQ. But then why are so many FAQs so lacking? How often have you read a FAQ and thought, “that didn’t tell me anything I needed to know!”?

Writing surveys is easy; or is it? The truth is that writing surveys is easy but writing effective surveys is more difficult. The following are twenty tips that if followed will help you write more effective surveys.

Writing articles for publication on the Internet is, at the time I write this, every Internet marketer’s favourite way to get free publicity for his website.

Is your website doomed before it even gets off the ground? A badly-designed website can turn off potential customers before they even think about buying your product.

The web pages actually at the top of Google have only one thing clearly in common: good writing. Don’t let the usual SEO sacred cows and bugbears, such as PageRank, frames, and JavaScript, distract you from the importance of good content.

Writing a debt collection letter is one of the most important skills of any small business owner. Do you have what it takes to get the money you’ve earned?

Are you a network marketer or an affiliate struggling to convert your web site visitors into eager sign-ups or buying customers? While there could be many reasons why you’re not receiving the sign-ups and customers you deserve, the first thing you should consider is your ad copy.

Blogging improves your writing skills…Better writing ability, and an enhanced ability to express yourself in print, is a rarely thought about benefit of blogging.

Pay attention to the titles of your web pages. They are more important than most web authors realize. If you understand why the title is so important, you can write web page titles that will enhance your site exposure and will attract more visitors to your web site.

Writing for how people search and writing quality links are the two fundamental skills of web writing. Think carefully about search behavior and make sure your links are always clear and logical.

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