I’ve noticed some of my friends are now blogging, which I wholeheartedly support. I’ll not link to them here, just to be a dick.
The problem I have with their blogs is their avoidance of the shift key – they use no capital letters. At all. Certainly, there are several instances where you don’t need to use capital letters:
- Command-line interfaces
- Instant Messaging
- SMS Messaging
- Quick emails to friends
However, any time that you intend for your writings to be read by a larger audience, it’s critical that you make your work readable in order to properly communicate your message. This means using such techniques as punctuation, capitalization, and breaking your work into paragraphs – and, for long enough documents, even sections and subsections.
The only effect that not applying these techniques has is masking your message behind a curtain of illegibility. It does not make you cool, artistic or special: it only makes you a lazy dick.
Published on
July 4, 2006 in
Tech.
Bringing my notes from DemoCamp7 live to you via the intarweb.
18:32: Joey has announced we’re running a little late. This may be a bit too much detail.
18:50: Still no start, but Joey has donned the accordion. Methinks no good can come from this.
19:02: Mr. Johnson has finally arrived
19:07: We have begun
19:16: Domainer goes up. Can barely hear them.
19:24: Couldn’t hear much of the intro, but the demo spoke for itself. They’ve built a REALLY COOL site editor – drag and drop, the works – in a browser. It’s all component-based. It’s… beautiful.
19:30: Domainer ends. Can’t hear most of the questions, mostly due to HVAC.
19:32: Feelingbullish.com is up. Joey: “Nonexistentially-speaking, why are you here?”
19:34: Trying to develop custom community for stock traders, as opposed to traditional forums-only systems. Ratings, blogs, forums.
19:36: Analysts have reputations based on past performance. Wisdom secton aggregates everyone’s opinion. VERY cool.
19:41: Analyst pages keep track of history – can’t change your ratings, blog posts etc. to make yourself look better. Good idea.
19:43: Their badges for analysts to use indicate reputation or current positions.
19:44: Not trying to replace Yahoo Finance, etc., just trying to provide a better tool than forums.
19:46: FeelingBullish down.
19:48: Plea for money.
19:49: Paruba up. I can hear them!
19:53: Seems to be a social networking site for wishlists? “Flickr and del.icio.us for E-Commerce” Johnson says +10 points for bookmarklets. Get your own blog, dude.
19:55: Nice use of AJAX.
19:57: “Oh, we’ll just do this in our spare time. Bullshit.” Priceless, and true.
19:59: “If you want to get it built, you need to feel the pain”
20:01: Indicates they don’t want adult items, but will deal with it when the time comes. Joey looks… disappointed.
20:05: Paruba down. Didn’t catch the last questions.
20:09: Joey is wearing the star-spangled banner.
20:11: Randy refreshes his drink.
20:13: Randy fails to refresh his drink before the demo
20:14: Glove up.
20:15: Tool for maipulating 3D sitemap.
20:17: WOW
20:22: Ingredients for your own glove: 1 iSight, 1 bunch of image processing software, 1 rollerblade wristguard with image target, the guts of 1 wireless keyboard for command buttons
20:27: Glove down
20:28: “My name is Damian Conway. I am Australian. I’m here to show you what you’ll be using when you get sick of Ruby.” Perl 6 is up.
20:29: “Just to start a language war…” and launches ViM. WTG!
20:31: He’s doing his presentation in ViM. Wow. “Pugs is -Ofun”.
20:40: “Those of you who like Perl will be pleased to know that you can still write obfuscated crap.”
20:43: Perl demo ends. Perl rocks.
UPDATE: This entry will serve as the basis for a decidedly more coherent summary of the event as soon as I stop feeling as though teeth were pulled from my head. Stay tuned.
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