Writer To Go

Joseph Heller’s chart of Catch-22

[ from Famous Authors’ Handwritten Outlines ]

Your recurring link bait headlines convinced me to stop reading and subscribing to your web site.

Eschewing traditional web advertising is the best business decision I’ve ever made.

— John Gruber, blogger

patter →

noun

Glib and rapid speech.

Colloquial shortening of “Pater Noster”, referring to the mumbling of prayers quickly and mechanically.

bookmarking spring.

(photo by Hilda Grahnat, via Exploring Flickr)

obstreperous →

adjective

Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise. Noisily and stubbornly defiant.

From the Latin obstrepere, “to oppose noisily”.

[this word of the week brought you by Judge Robert Scola]

A graphic example of text as a teaching tool, by Aaron Kuehn.

[reblogged from FeralFilm.com, and some other Tumblr]

The app is secondary — it’s just a container… This is why publishers like Condé Nast can have such mediocre, reader-hostile apps: the apps don’t matter as much as we like to think. The content and the audience matter much more than what color your links are.

- Marco Arment