Month Archives: July 2023

Have you considered blogging on X but wished the character limit would allow long-form posts? A fix may be in the works.

Since Pat Sajak announced his coming retirement from 'Wheel of Fortune,' we've learned about a Vanna White salary controversy.

Meta's new social platform Threads announced it would impose rate limits, but it's not doing it quite the same way Twitter added theirs.

When I was a kid, I wasn't a fan of pimento cheese sandwiches. That would eventually change. But should it be pimento or pimiento?

Elon Musk put the little Twitter bird on the endangered species list, announcing he plans to retire the logo and the Twitter brand.

Of the various AP Style rules I teach new writers at my real job, one of the most consistently confusing rules involve street abbreviations.

It might be hard to imagine requesting a refund on tithes, but one church's three-month tithe challenge offers exactly that.

Can you spot whether abbreviations are acronyms or initialisms? Many can't, even though we all encounter plenty of both regularly.

Meta's new social media platform could have a problem, a report suggests: Threads engagement time dropped by more than 50%.

After spending my first week on the new Threads platform and comparing it with other alternatives, here's my take on what I've seen.

A new crop of concert throwers — people who intentionally throw things at performers on stage — and they're getting dangerous.

There's a well-known saying about music having charms that can soothe a savage something. But is it a savage beast or breast?

There's a new Google Analytics that carries the charming nickname 'GA4.' The old 'Universal Analytics' was set to stop working July 1.

The World Health Organization is set to release a frustrating Aspartame report this month that links the artificial sweetener to cancer.

I received a nice email about a newspaper subscription hike. But it's what I saw on the paper's website that made me cancel renewal.

A joke about the national anthem is a good example of a mondegreen. It's something you may have experienced without knowing the term.