Comments on: Writing Styles: What’s Fun & Not

By: ogletree

ogletree — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:30:49 +0000

Anybody who knew me growing up especially my parents are shocked to know I do a lot of writing. People tell me that my writing style is different. I’m not sure if that is good or bad. I just write how I think. I’m a pretty blunt person and it shows in my writing. I try to stay away from the news stuff like on search engine land. I figure you and all the zillions of other people that do that are covering it just fine. I did not want to have a blog post that pretty much matched everybody else’s that day. I used to teach blind people how to use computers and I also used to teach TCP/IP at a local trade school so a lot of my stuff turns out to be tutorials. I also like to give my opinion on things and I do sometimes cover big industry news if I think I have a unique opinion of it.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:38:18 +0000

This isn’t writing-style specific, but you should make a favicon for Daggle. I like your compass-point one for SEL, but it doesn’t look like Daggle has one. That would make it easier to identify your site when one’s Firefox has, say, 50 tabs open because you’re catching up from a vacation.

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:04:33 +0000

I don’t know how I fit it all in. Actually, I feel like I’m not getting to nearly as much as I want!
I have both a good memory and a good filing system

By: Mike Empuria

Mike Empuria — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:16:36 +0000

How do you do as much writing in a day as you do?
I read SEL and every day, I listen to the Daily SearchCast (Monday to Thursday on WebmasterRadio.com folks!) and then you are organising conferences and being cited for articles and writing in Daggle and going to Centre Parcs and off to Mountain View and promoting Tom Jones songs and IMing your wife “Be there in 5 mins” and all sorts of stuff.
How do you do it? Could you one day post your day and let us know how you fit everything in?
Thanks
Mike
PS. Could you tell us once and for all if you have a great memory for SE news or do you have a good filing system?

By: Kristina

Kristina — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:30:23 +0000

I just want to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed your new articles on SearchEngineLand these past few weeks. The new site is awesome, your writing style is warm and engaging, and SEL is at the top of my Google Reader folders! Thanks Danny!

By: Brian M

Brian M — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:51:01 +0000

I took a job with an extremely long commute, so I thought that I would write by dictating into a digital recorder. I download the dictation into my PC and use voice recognition software to transcribe it, which has worked out much better than I ever expected.
The problem is the editing of the transcribed text, and I now have tons of material to edit because I have learned that I hate the editing part…