Suggestions for Blog Name(s)

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

For the techie strand I'm thinking maybe a wordplay around the Linotype machine - how about Digital Slugs.

Yeah, I really like that name as well! You are great at coming up with names!

Both of yours are my favorite!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(typesetting)

[BetterRed]

For the blog name how about: Babble On to Behistun

Added: You could have a third strand of occasional posts on the history of writing - Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Nordic Runes, Akkadian Cuneiform, etc.

BR

[theducks]

I remember using 'slugs' when setting cold type in High School.

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

For the blog name how about: Babble On to Behistun

Added: You could have a third strand of occasional posts on the history of writing - Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Nordic Runes, Akkadian Cuneiform, etc.

Sounds like something more up the alley of BabelMap's blog:

https://babelstone.blogspot.com/

... the only language information I typically follow is getting lost down the Wikipedia Wormhole when new languages get added to Unicode (or when I see them mentioned in changelogs). Last time I got lost was researching Kabyle (a Berber language spoken by ~5.5 million people):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle_language

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

Sounds like something more up the alley of BabelMap's blog:

Babelstone's blog was probably rattling around at the back of my mind when Babble on to Behistun popped into it.

Digital Slugs + Lingo Metrics = ???????

I'll let it percolate for a bit.

BR

[Tex2002ans]

The finalized logo for Digital Slug has arrived!



It's a mix of a book + circuit board. Physical book + Digital!

Let me know your thoughts!

Hopefully the blog will be starting up soon, and I can get to pumping out glorious, glorious content!

For example, here was in-depth discussion on pain points of current Spellcheck/Grammarcheck tools (still looking for more input/discussion):

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=310766

Or a recent technical post I wrote on "What are the Pros and Cons of EPUB vs. MOBI?":

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comme..._mobi/e493e9x/

Side Note: I surpassed 1000 posts on MobileRead. If we added up my total word count though, it would probably stretch from here to outside the universe.

[gmw]

It's neat.

Hmm... it didn't really inspire much more than that one lonely thought.

[evanhson357]

Like the logo, it's clever.

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by gmw

It's neat.

Originally Posted by evanhson357

Like the logo, it's clever.

Thanks!

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Something major with the blog may or may not have progressed today. (I was researching for ~a week, looks like it mostly went smooth. Just have to iron out the kinks.)

The past few weeks, I've also been answering questions over on Reddit in my usual in-depth style.

Like one person on Reddit asked about "O vs. 0", where a text might look like $25OO.OO instead of $2500.00:

https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/com..._vs_0/e8ibp3y/

Of course, I'm 99% sure it was OpenType "Old-Style Numerals".

So I'll most likely make write a blog post, and go in much more detail.

Lots of rough drafts and outlines! I haven't been slacking on this!

PS. One of the annoying things on Reddit is posts getting shadowed... probably assumed it was spam because of all my links to sources + examples! I wrote another great post on Fixed Format ebooks. Luckily, I still have access to my original post, but nobody else could see my genius!

[gmw]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

[...] but nobody else could see my genius!

That happens to me a lot!

[HarryT]

What is the URL of your blog?

[jcsalomon]

Originally Posted by HarryT

What is the URL of your blog?

https://digital-slug.com/ seems to be reserved for the blog when it starts.

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by jcsalomon

https://digital-slug.com/ seems to be reserved for the blog when it starts.

Yes, that's the site. Good detective work.

I did PM HarryT with the URL soon after that post.

It's been almost a year since I purchased the domain, wanted to keep it under wraps until I finished the CSS + backend + everything else before "publicly announcing".

Planned on doing that within a month... then got carried away with big conversion jobs, new clients coming in, [...].

I definitely have to kick my butt into gear and whip the site into shape.

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Side Note: I've still been doing massive amounts of research (and the usual in-depth posts on MobileRead... I've done 300 more in the last year!).

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Some very interesting technical talks have happened within the last year:

ebookcraft 2019 + their other talks:

• Building Ebooks that Last
  • I've already referenced this in a few posts. One of the best talks I've seen discussing the long-term maintenance needed for ebooks + why readers return books (typos are >50%, followed by bad/broken code).
  • Long story short: KISS.
• Pagination in the Browser
  • Some of the current tools to split HTML into pages, and the newer CSS3 pagination stuff + the advantages/disadvantages to the different methods.
• Accessibility is always good talks to listen to.

LibreOffice had a conference in 2019. There was a bunch of good talks there.

• Online: Copy/Paste
  • Discussed the horrifying nature of copying/pasting rich text between browsers/OSes, and the completely inconsistent usage of Javascript and everything else that causes hell.
  • I assume a lot of this also hits Google Docs (and online Microsoft Office too), so you can see how incompatibilities sneak in when trading between them.

LibreOffice's QA Blog is always great to check on every month. They give a few more "human-readable" summaries discussing some of the bugfixes/upcoming changes.

One of the things I'm most excited to still research is my Does Tool Exist to Spellcheck/Grammarcheck by Category? topic. It's still tough to get actual technical information on grammarchecking... there's just so much marketing fluff out there that drowns out any sort of real information/comparisons on the topic.

Past month I've been cleaning up a Physics book in LaTeX for proper typesetting (and learned a hell of a lot in the process about Maths alignment, better ways to maintain code, cleaning up messes, etc.).

So yeah... plan on compiling a lot of the summaries and info and posting as blog posts.

[Gregg Bell]

+ Starting new ebook blog soon (Digital Slug)

Uh, just sayin'.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Uh, just sayin'.

lol!!!

Well said.

Hitch