Idle Thought: One reason I often do not follow a link to someone's blog entry that sounds interesting is that the blogger is way, way too wordy.
Used to be that 15-inch newspaper article would run about 750 words. Now, blog posts can easily run 2,000 words or more.
Bloggers have no editors, mostly.
Bloggers mostly need editors.
Bill Lamb /
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2024-08-29 16:21:12
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