Another reason blog entries should be edited before posting.

[wickedwritah]

From the Redskins' blog on the Sean Taylor incident:

UPDATE:
Also, just to clear something up - this is a different house in a different part of South Florida than where Sean had the ATV incident two years ago and was arrested on firearms charges. He was in his old neighbrogood near his mom's house when that incident occured, he has moved to a nicer part of town since starting his family and, according to teammates, had stopped hanging around a lot of his former associates after his last legal problems.

However, a lot of people down there know who he is, are jeolous of his wealth, etc, and it's not like no one from his old neighborhood knows his new address. At this point police are still trying to piece together the scene and their investigation is ongoing at the home.

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.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Teacher the blogger how to use spellcheck before posting.

 

[armageddon]

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.

 

[Ace]

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.

 

[funky_mountain]

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

 

[auggie_ben_doggie]

Teacher the blogger how to use spellcheck before posting.

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.

 

[Ace]

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

 

[ondeadline]

His recap includes this sentence:

Sean was shot near an artery in his thight, lost a lot of blood, and has been in surgery all day.

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

 

[Leo Mazzone]

Dwigt

 

[Pulitzer Wannabe]

Dwigt

Ha! Just watched that one yesterday.

 

[jfs1000]

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.

 

[Editude]

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

 

[wickedwritah]

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

jfs, no intent to rip bloggers, but it shows that there should be copy editors worried about this sort of stuff.

Would it really matter if a copy editor took 30 seconds to read the blog before it was posted? Would it harm the blogger to call the "blog desk" (my creation of a term) and say, "I filed, can you proofread it please?"

 

[forever_town]

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

I'm calling bull**** on this one. EVERYTHING with your organization's name on it -- or your name on it -- reflects on your organization and the person who wrote it. Blog or otherwise.

If you don't have five minutes to correct easy spelling mistakes that no able bodied person out of sixth grade has any excuse to make, you shouldn't work for a newspaper or a Web site.

 

[Jims242]

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

I'm calling bull**** on this one. EVERYTHING with your organization's name on it -- or your name on it -- reflects on your organization and the person who wrote it. Blog or otherwise.

If you don't have five minutes to correct easy spelling mistakes that no able bodied person out of sixth grade has any excuse to make, you shouldn't work for a newspaper or a Web site.

I'm with FT on this. Man, I spellcheck my blog, I read it out loud to myself and, when I check it 30 minutes after I post, I correct any stupid stuff I missed. Mistakes, especially in my own copy, drive me insane. I don't need any help with work stuff to drive me insane.

 

[Mira]

A peer of mine wrote red**** freshman when he was blogging and it was posted. I think all bloggers should take more time editing their copy before posting it.

If it takes 10 minutes to type your blog, spend 15 editing it, IMO.

 

[Ace]

A peer of mine wrote red**** freshman when he was blogging and it was posted. I think all bloggers should take more time editing their copy before posting it.

Editing is fine and all, but I think those freshmen need to get checked out by the team physician, pronto.

 

[fishwrapper]

I'm not DocTalk (sometimes I play him on television)...but, I think that could be serious.