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This sentence contains a link to the excellent guide on how to write an incendiary blog post from Chris Clarke.

And in the same vein here's Charlie Brooker on Newswipe (YouTube embed below) on how to make a news video report. [Walks to camera moving arms about...]

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When I went to school the teachers had a kind of hit and hope approach to the teaching of English. (I mean "hit and hope" in the sense a careful aim was not taken. I do not mean I was hit. Ever.) As I recall there was very little teaching of grammar rules or sentence structure. We would write stories, they would come back with red pen on them and from that we were meant to learn something. You could call it learning by osmosis. As opposed to say maths or sciences which are based on learning rules and formuli.…

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Ommwriter is a new full screen editor for the Mac. What makes this one different is that it includes ambient sounds (think new age relaxation and aromatherapy), very subtle keyboard sounds and interesting backgrounds. In my brief test, this post was written in ommwriter, it works well but I did find the ambient music to be too loud relative to the keyboard fx. It would be nice to have a control on the relative levels. But this is about minimalism (the fewer controls the better) and it's only a beta release. It's a very interesting project and it's good to…

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Nick Asbury turned company overviews into poetry. Good to see them put to some use at last. For example:

Scottish Widows

Here in an Edinburgh coffee house,
their futures became history.
Meet the latest widow.

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