[WikiEN-l] Response to Nick Carr on Wikipedia and Web 2.0

[David Gerard]

Tony Sidaway wrote:

> I like your idea of adopting the Economist house style, but a lot of kids
> are taught in schools to write unimaginably long, tedious essays on quite
> trivial subjects, so they have to learn how to trim out the waffle when they
> come to writing for real readers.


Jakob Nielsen's "Writing for the Web" is not ideal for this purpose
(highlighted promotional keywords?), but it's a useful start.

    http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/


- l,d.