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andrew | April 15th, 2004 @ 10:26 pm

Excerpts from On Writing Well by William Zinsser

andrew | April 15th, 2004 @ 10:27 pm

i am such a loser

Matt | April 15th, 2004 @ 10:32 pm

Wow, that was fast.

Vitaliy | April 15th, 2004 @ 10:32 pm

This thing is taking over all blogs

Matt | April 15th, 2004 @ 10:35 pm

Well it is the perfect meme. Esoteric enough to appeal to all ranges of bloggers. It capitalizes on the essence of blogging: talking about yourself. Let’s people share what they’re reading, and people often try to impress each other with what they’re reading. It’s easy. The rules dictate spread.

sarahw | April 15th, 2004 @ 11:26 pm

woo! my first trackback… because i needed a reason.

Dustin | April 15th, 2004 @ 11:47 pm

Basically a cookie went to whomever knew to Google search the quickest/was at your site first too:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Today+they+perform+strenuous+verbal+feats+to+escape+that+fate

I remember it being on your bookshelf as well, new fan to the site, listening via RSS and inspired by your design and code prowess.

Michael Heilemann | April 16th, 2004 @ 1:53 am

Well it is the perfect meme. Esoteric enough to appeal to all ranges of bloggers. It capitalizes on the essence of blogging: talking about yourself. Let’s people share what they’re reading, and people often try to impress each other with what they’re reading. It’s easy. The rules dictate spread.

Ain’t that the damn truth!

Michael Heilemann | April 16th, 2004 @ 1:53 am

Hm… That was supposed to have been blockquoted…

mpt | April 16th, 2004 @ 7:17 am

If someone at Amazon Marketing didn’t invent this, they should have. Amazon’s “Search inside the book” feature would find such quotes more reliably than anything else (at the moment), Google included.

Simon Jessey | April 16th, 2004 @ 8:20 am

In other, other news, Jeffrey and Carrie have exciting news about a forthcoming arrival!