Copywriting
- ClickZ Writing Online
- ClickZ's copywriting column.
- Nick Usborne
- Writer of Net Words and the Excess Voice newsletter for copywriters.
Blogging
- Weblog | Wiki entry
- The history and structure of weblogs.
- NUblog
- eZine for Blogging
- MicroContentNews.com
- Excellent blog about online content.
- Why web journals suck
- Having a pop at some of the less success blogs.
Technical Writing
- Intranet Journal
- Lots of advice about how to pad that beautifully architected Intranet with actual useful content, and then manage it.
- Intranet-Extranet Research Center
- Further good mish-mash of Intranet news and resources.
Hypertext Writing
- Kairos: A Journal of Writing in Webbed Environments
- Excellent journal intersecting writing, education and technology
- Hypertext Kitchen
- A great place to cook up a load of hypertext (sorry ... its getting late).
- Eastgate
- Hypertext writing tools and publishing.
Writing Guides
- A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
- Good guide to all the rhetorical forms, from alliteration to zeugma.
- Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms
- Good guide to writing genres and styles.
- The Tongue Untied
- An excellent elearning course on grammar. Dip into it as you need, and learn not, to write like Yoda, no?
- Common Errors in English
- Know your practice from your practise, your premier from your premiere.
Writing Tools
- Dictionary.com
- Good dictionary, though sometimes, when you can't spell something, having a go in Google produces better results.
- Hyper Dictionary
- Another good dictionary - here everything in the definition is a hypertext link.
- RoboHelp
- Most popular serious Help (hypertext) writing tool.
- Free Help Authoring Tools
- Collection of free utilities to help build HTML Help (Hypertext) pages. Some need the Microsoft Help Compiler (see next entry).
- Microsoft HTML Help 1.4 SDK
- Software Development Kit for building HTML Help.
Journals (as examples of Writing Styles)
- The Memeory Hole
- How to write to informed netizens: a fearless investigative journalism site.
- Barbelith Underground
- How to write to the counter-culture: a community built experimental "thingy" - you know what the web is like for this sort of thing. Bags of interesting stuff, and apparently UK based.
- FirstMonday
- How to write to the egg-heads: a peer reviewed accessible academic journal on Internet related issues. Often fascinating.
- Wired
- How to write to the informed metrosexual: technology news and how it impacts on culture in its widest sense.
- ZDNet UK
- How to write to the geek: technology news in its much more narrorer sense.
- New Woman
- How to write to women: lifestyle, health & beauty, celebrities, horoscopes.
- BBC Teens
- How to write to teenagers: yes, scary, that the Beeb knows how to write to teenagers … or does it?
- The Sun
- How to write to the common man. 'nuff said, mate.
- The Guardian
- How to write to the educated person, in a socially concerned and responsive way, allowing for diversity and promoting inclusiveness.
