Reviving Anorexic Web Writing
Here’s an interesting post from about a month ago on A List Apart about writing for the web that got me thinking about blogging guidelines: why should online content be kept short and sweet? How long is too long for a blog post? Can you build a body without a heart?
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/revivinganorexicwebwriting
“As our culture becomes increasingly digital, the art forms that support it must be constructed with the same care, deliberateness, and gusto as our traditional media. Intelligent content is the literature of our time.”
Though one may not necessarily agree that all web content should be beautiful lengthy prose (Personally, I do not have enough time or attention span for that!), the author makes an interesting distinction between ad copy & intelligent content, and suggests creators of web content be more conscious writers. But this also begs the question…if more web writing was ‘intelligent content’ instead of babbling advertising copy, would users have more of an attention span & desire to read longer entries?