Another reason blog entries should be edited before posting.

From the Redskins' blog on the Sean Taylor incident:

A college-educated person should be able to re-read his/her copy and pick out three basic spelling errors -- heck, Firefox points them out to me with the red lines underneath. No, they're not major mishaps, but it devalues the product when you log onto a major paper's Web site, and they can't spell "neighborhood" correctly.

 

Teacher the blogger how to use spellcheck before posting.

 

Agreed. Our blogs do not have a spell-check feature. Go figure. But just write them on word and then check 'em.

However, I've also been in a position in which I felt sooooo pressured to get the item up as quickly as possible that I didn't write first on word and then check. Had to go back ASAP and fix a typo.

Our desk folks won't even edit stuff that runs online only, much less blog items.

 

If it's a blog, I would think the desk wouldn't have the access to edit it.

 

you can easily set up blogs so that multiple people have access.

 

Indeed. The blog I write has a spellcheck feature that will, at times, stall out in the middle of its checking. If that happens, I literally cut and paste the blog into a Word doc and run spellcheck there. Because nothing undercuts a good point better than letting one "teh coach said" into the post.

 

Who cares about these tiny details. You all are just jelous.

 

His recap includes this sentence:

Heck, if he'd just use Firefox the "thight" would be flagged.

 

Dwigt

 

Ha! Just watched that one yesterday.

 

Leave the guy alone. The blog is supposed to be stream of consciousness and quick.

I am sensitive to this, because I misspell everything on my blog. Of course, if I catch it, I edit it. But a lot of time I don't even read over the post. It's short-hand and kind of like talking out loud.

I can't spend 15 minutes editing a 5 minute blog entry that was written quickly.

Yes, we should have no typos, but give the guy a break. Sometimes people write too fast.

 

If it takes you 15 minutes to edit a five-minute blog entry, then you need more help than spellcheck. Have some baseline standards.