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Re: A simple boldfacing algorithm

Author:Dave Winer
Posted:1/24/2000; 9:06:15 AM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 1/22/00
Msg #:14788 (In response to 14786)
Prev/Next:14787 / 14790

You wouldn't believe how much stuff I deleted from today's DaveNet.

All the time I was thinking how I would explain what I was doing to someone who wasn't a writer.

In 1994, when I started writing a column I tended to write top to bottom and then do a lite edit and ship it. Nowadays I spend a week preparing to write a piece. And when I sit down to write it's often three columns that get squeezed down into one. It's more powerful writing. I trust the intelligence of the reader to connect the dots. I use subtle cues to help assure they connect them correctly.

Writing is like engineering, but it hardly has anything to do with user interface.

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