Saturday, January 31st, 2009...2:28 am
How to edit yourself on your blog
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Let’s pause for a little bit of shameless self-promotion: OK, folks, you can mosey on over to Thou Shall Blog if you’d like. I have a guest blog there.
It’s a primer on how to edit yourself. Sure, the blogosphere is great — no editors to get in your way. But also no editors to correct your misspelled words, spot your run-on sentences or correct your flawed subject-verb agreement.
After 11 years as a newspaper editor, I’ve learned a think thing (edited Feb 1, thanks to comment by Mark. Thanks, Mark.) or two about fixing mistakes. I share them on Thou Shall Blog, a blog by Yan Susanto that is targeted to beginning bloggers. Check it out. (Hopefully, you won’t find a typo.)
– Gina
I'm Gina Chen, a 20-year veteran newspaper journalist who is studying for a communications Ph.D. I want to see journalism survive. I believe news organizations need to embrace new media, change their thinking, improve their content and innovate. Read more about me 
4 Comments
February 1st, 2009 at 4:25 am
Love your blog, but this is tragic:
” … I’ve learned a think or two about fixing mistakes.”
February 1st, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Mark,
Thanks … I knew it would happen. You can’t write about self-editing without making a dumb typo.
I appreciate you pointing it out.
– GIna
February 4th, 2010 at 9:55 am
I trust you would not mind if I put up a part of this on my univeristy blog?
February 6th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Kindra,
Sure, go ahead and put it on your university blog. Would appreciate a link back, of course.
Gina
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