Jacob Nielsen's Be Succinct (Writing for the Web) is helpful in many ways because it points out many areas I have failed in some of my past blogs. Although I have used a lot of hypertexts instead of going into great detail about a subject, I also feel that some of my blogs go on for too long and my paragraphs may be a tad lengthy. I feel I don't always use enough key words to catch a reader's eye and I should start using more instead of using the same run of the mill nouns, verbs, etc.
His piece is a bit dated though because it fails to mention blogs or the use of pictures, audio, and videos in web writing. It really made me realize how internet writing has evolved so much over the past decade.
All in all the piece helped me focus on some things I may not have noticed before, but also made me realize that I am doing many things right in my blog.
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