Web Writing and Patterns

Resources at† Hot Text — Web Writing that Works is a project by “The Communication Cirle” (which looks like a writing and consulting company) that has some good stuff on writing for the web. I am intrigued by how they present genres as the writing equivalent to patterns. (See their section on Patterns.) Could it be that genre theory could be applied to the discussion in computer science on patterns?

Here is what they say about blogs.

The key is to add enough perspective so the reader hears your voice, but not so much that you turn the text into a full article. Blogs are more casual, informal, and tentative. … The conversation becomes visible.

Alas readers – my purpose in these entries is to write enough to keep notes that make sense.

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