DISQUS

Llamamomma · 2 years ago

Erika Haub over at The Margins gets the top spot of my "thinking" list. Check her out at http://erika.haub.net/

(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.)

Karin H. · 2 years ago

Hi Marcus

I like your question, so my contribution is:
Kent Blumberg (most of his posts on managing and leadership makes you stop and think)

Eve Nielsen · 2 years ago

OOO! LL's name is Laura!! (just gave away her trade secret there, Mark :)

Craver-VII · 2 years ago

I thought it was Lolita Lulu.

Eve Nielsen · 2 years ago

*snicker*

Robert Bruce · 2 years ago

Thank you Mark.

I'm thinking you're too good to me brother.

L.L. Barkat · 2 years ago

Craver, how did you know? Mark's just running cover for me (how kind after I was roped into hijacking his blog by a mischievous one who likes to snicker!)

And, Mark, thanks for the tag. Methinks me's been tagged on this before...

http://greeninventionscentral.blogspot.com/2007...

And that was my answer.

Every Square Inch · 2 years ago

I concur with your nomination of LL's blog. Since you mentioned "Laura" (anonymity is a hard thing to hold onto!) already, let me put a word in for Ted Gossard's blog.

He's not only thoughtful, he's prolific...posting everyday!

Every Square Inch · 2 years ago

Here's the link to Ted's blog - Jesus Community

http://www.communityofjesus.blogspot.com/

Eve Nielsen · 2 years ago

ESI, that what we call obssessed, around here :)

Marcus · 2 years ago

You all are the best. I had a meeting out at the Canyon yesterday. (It was tough, but someone had to do it.)

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.

Marcus · 2 years ago

Karin, I like Kent's blog a lot. In fact, I found it through you originally.

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.

Marcus · 2 years ago

L.L., I actually messed this up. You were supposed to be a blog I liked. But somehow the annotation about you got lost. I knew you and others had been tagged, so I tried to deflect all tags into the comments section.

And ended up confusing people. Oh well.

Jenn · 2 years ago

Thanks for the props, Marcus!

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.

Robert Bruce · 2 years ago

Thanks Marcus. (Tried to leave this yesterday but didn't get through...)

Llamamomma · 2 years ago

Mark,

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!)

Eve Nielsen · 2 years ago

Llamma..."Hey you!" Work in a pinch *grin*

Marcus · 2 years ago

Sorry comments are so slow from me this week. I'm scrambling to get ready for a blog convention. But I appreciate all of your thoughts! I hope to answer everyone individually soon.

Marcus · 2 years ago

Robert, ach! You got stuck in Akismet for a few days. I dusted off your comments and rescued them though. Strange that you landed there. It's a dark dank place, with too many links to other dark dank places.