After reading Grammar Girl's latest e-newsletter, "Why Photo Captions May Deserve a Grammatical Pass" I decided to define, what I thought were important, online photo caption rules. Not just as an online copywriter or an email campaign strategist, but as an absolute grammar nut, I feel this is the best set of guidelines when adding captions to your photos online:
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CNN covers the "World's 'oldest beer' found in shipwreck"
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I love Paste Magazine for many, many reasons. Here, they have honored the creators of a robot built to fetch beer. Not the most novel idea, but the fact it works is pretty freaking sweet. But really, a robot serving alcohol? Sounds like robot invasion tactics to me, especially after finding it's counter-part Beer2-D2.
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Do you think you're developing/honing a taste (or maybe a hunger?) for the non-human focused literature? Lucky, and not so luck for you, there's a lot of it out there. The literate minded, over your head jokers, and soft speakers that are NPR, have compiled a list of oozy, gritty, down right dirty summer un-dead, mutant and extra-terrestrial readings to assist in the forging. Shoo, even if you're non-fiction devoted, it's worth it just to read the NPR write-up.
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Randfish at SEOmoz.org tells a really great tale of the connection of cooking and SEO with some delicious photos in his article, "Cooking Up Great SEO: An Analogy in Photos." The way he uses creating a mouth watering goat and pasta dish to exemplify the intricacies of creating great SEO, is really quite fabulous. He backs up his analogy with the following connections:
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The title sounds a little more epic than the post really is. Here are just a few bands that are already rocking the 0'ten.
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I've come up with a conclusion. A good food blog requires two things; pretty pictures and creative titles. However, a great food blog has the afore mentioned qualities and, perhaps the most fundamentally important attribute, detailed instructions.
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