I stumbled across an article last week, mentioning a term that was new to me, yet simultaneously enraged me: Xennial. Apparently, Xennials are people who straddle the Generation X and Millennial generations – born between 1977 and 1983. The term has been ‘invented’ specifically to accommodate a group of people who don’t feel as if they fit into the X […]
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Why I can’t keep a diary
Joan Didion said it best in her collection of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem: At no point have I ever been able successfully to keep a diary; my approach to daily life ranges from the grossly negligent to the merely absent, and on those few occasions when I have tried dutifully to record a day’s events, boredom has so overcome me […]
Read moreWriting for mobile – is it so different to writing for web?
Today, I came across an Econsultancy post offering tips on writing content for a mobile audience. There was nothing inherently wrong with the advice, in my opinion, apart from one crucial thing. Writing for a mobile audience shouldn’t be any different. As ever more websites become responsive, and mobile-only sites disappear, surely the ability to write for a mobile audience […]
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