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.
