by Sue Horner | Sep 24, 2007 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
A post on Dan Santow’s Word Wise blog says, “It’s bad out there and getting worse.” He’s talking about the increasingly common habit of inserting capital letters where none are required to indicate an Important Word. He goes on to give a comprehensive list of...
by Sue Horner | Sep 17, 2007 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Just back from travelling to New Jersey with my mother to visit her younger sister. My aunt lives in Freehold, where Bruce Springsteen was born and raised and which is apparently the subject of his song, My Hometown. We drove past his first home, kind of a...
by Sue Horner | Sep 8, 2007 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
The latest issue of IABC’s printed Communication World (or CW, which now receives top billing over the full name) reports on the results of a recent member survey about salaries and job satisfaction. Generally, the 3,370 respondents indicated we’re...
by Sue Horner | Sep 6, 2007 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Making their way around the world lately by e-mail and blog (including Aussie Angry 365 Days a Year and Reluctant Nomad in Amsterdam) are some classic insults from the days when insults weren’t mean and crude, but had wit and class. Winston Churchill was always...
by Sue Horner | Sep 5, 2007 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
I ran across a funny comment about Twitter the other day (and I’m sorry, it was commenting on a blog but I can’t remember which one): “Is it just me or is the Internet becoming more and more like passing notes in 7th grade?”
by Sue Horner | Sep 4, 2007 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Not everyone is singing happily along with those Staples Business Depot commercials, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” I hate this time of year. I’m sad to see the end of summer, my favourite season. It has such a defined end (Labour...
by Sue Horner | Sep 2, 2007 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Just for fun, I had a look through the 58 spam messages that were in Akismet’s holding pen and was amused to find these attempts to get through spam filters (amid mostly offers for various prescription drugs): “Very sensible post…”...
by Sue Horner | Aug 30, 2007 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
It’s amazing how many new frankenwords have been created based on the word “blog.” I ran across these two on KDPaine’s PR Measurement Blog: Blogatorials, which are apparently poor corporate blog efforts that are really advertorials;...
by Sue Horner | Aug 27, 2007 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
I confess to taking a moment today to bask in the glow of a compliment about an online newsletter article I just submitted. However, it reminded me of something once asked of me: “So, are you only as good as your last article/newsletter?” (This was many...
by Sue Horner | Aug 25, 2007 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
I’ve been filing Goods & Services Tax returns with the Canadian government without incident since 1991, so I was alarmed to receive a “Statement of Arrears” from Canada Revenue Agency. A closer look revealed that the document was a new type of acknowledgement that...
