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(Okay, editing question. How do you handle punctuation after a URL? If I add a period after Erika's blog address, won't that screw people up if they try to cut and paste her address? I have been wondering about this for quite some time.)
I like your question, so my contribution is:
Kent Blumberg (most of his posts on managing and leadership makes you stop and think)
I'm thinking you're too good to me brother.
And, Mark, thanks for the tag. Methinks me's been tagged on this before...
http://greeninventionscentral.blogspot.com/2007...
And that was my answer.
He's not only thoughtful, he's prolific...posting everyday!
http://www.communityofjesus.blogspot.com/
Let me start with Llamamomma. She asks, "How do you handle punctuation after a URL?"
Good question.
There are lots of style manuals to look for the answer. I suspect each one will give you a different answer. CMA (Chicago Manual of Style) is pretty much the publication industry standard. I always go to it first.
In section 17.10 on "URLS and punctuation" it says, "A 'trailing slash,' the last character in a URL pointing to a directory, is part of the URL. Other punctuation markes used following a URL will readily be perceived as belonging to the surrounding text."
So use the period if it is at the end of a sentence.
Or better yet, don't show the URL at all. Since you made Erika's site into a hyperlink with an "a href" tag, I assume you know how to do this. Just create an appropriate noun phrase. Like Karin H. did in her comment with Kent's name.
And he did the best thing. When I commented there, he emailed to thank me. Not a big thing, but man did it get my attention.
And ended up confusing people. Oh well.
And good choices on the thinking blogs. I already listed five (including, obviously, this one) in my own blog, so I'll leave it at that.
Do you prefer to be called Mark, or Marcus?
Thank you for the information! I've got that book on my shelf, but I didn't even think to look it up myself.
(Yeah, just what you need. A lazy blogger hanging around your site!)