Not an active site, but content is worth a visit.
Great resource from Dennis Jerz at Seton Hill University.
Useful guide from University of California at Berkeley.
Useful advice on writing for the computer screen.
Our first Webwriting guru, still pushing into new territory.
A site with good advice on Website creation, news about online news, and other matters of concern to Web writers.
An excellent polemic on good and bad online communication.
Good way to remember the "you" attitude in online writing!
Nielsen is a pioneer in this field, and always worth reading.
Lively and readable!
When you can't make up your mind about email or e-mail, this usage handbook can help.
Excellent guide to writing English for those with English as a second or third language.
Perhaps the most exhaustive discussion on writing for the Web in its many forms.
Passionately argued introduction to writing sales copy for the Web.
Emphasis is on adapting newspaper stories to Web sites, but the principles apply to other print media as well.
Lively guide to writing for the Web, with some clear technical advice as well.
Far worse than the economic divide is the fact that technology remains so complicated that many people couldn't use a computer even if they got one for free. Many others can use computers, but don't achieve the modern world's full benefits because most of the available services are too difficult for them to understand.
Almost 40% of the population has lower literacy skills, and yet few websites follow the guidelines for writing for low-literacy users. Even government sites that target poorer citizens are usually written at a level that requires a university degree to comprehend. The British government has done some good work on simplifying much of its direct.
gov.uk site information, but even it requires at least a high school education to easily read.
Lower literacy is the Web's biggest accessibility problem, but nobody cares about this massive user group.
This really is a critical problem. It's one reason why I argue for keeping readability levels as low as possible. It's not dumbing-down the text—it's opening it up to people who can use it if only they can understand it.
Nielsen's post has a link to his guideline for writing for low-literacy users. I also recommend , which can give you several good ways to assess your text readability. You can also find a link to it in the Webwriting Resources list, down in the left-hand column.
Why inequality is hazardous to your health.
About a couple of remarkable Vancouver world-music groups.
About blogging in education: an idea whose time has not yet come.
My first book for adults, great fun to research and write, published in 1978.
Published in 1995, outdated in some respects, but some issues in education never change (unfortunately).
In a parallel timeline, 1990s America discovers the chronoplanes: parallel worlds at different points in history.
The hijacking of the Roman Empire, 100 AD, by 21st-century Christian fundamentalists, in the second of the Chronoplane Wars novels.
My first novel, published in 1978, but the last in the Chronoplane Wars trilogy.
"Write a space opera," my editor said.
So I did, with some nanotech thrown in.
A companion novel to Icequake, set mostly in California.
A disaster thriller (Antarctic ice sheet surges into ocean), dated but still fun.
Originally published in 1982, and still the novel I'm most proud of.
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