I recently had the bright idea to email some of my favorite bloggers asking them to take place in a survey about young people and new media.  It was going to be in the same vein as Smashing Magazine’s survey of 35 web designers.  However I found that on many blogs written by members of the media do not include an email address.

I see a potential conflict in blogging to share your views with the world, but placing a barrier between you and a reader who is looking to contact you.  Even if its just a disposable account a free email provider that is checked only once a week.

So I beg you: if you blog be easily accessible for private communication!

Its also discouraging that many of the people trumpeting new media values like transparency are not transparent on their own blog.

If you are frequently cutting and pasting article from Word (or any other text editor) into your Content Management System you may have to grapple with uniform spacing.

After every sentence, some place two spaces after a period some place one. This can lead to ugly looking paragraphs. To quickly fix this in MS Word:

Hit Control+F and you will be greated with a screen like this:

Click on the Replace tab, on the “Find What” field enter two spaces. On “Replace with” enter one space. Click”Replace All”.

While I’m not too familiar with other text editors they should have a similar function if they are worth using.