4th of July Updates

Did you know that the Declaration of Independence was not signed on July 4, 1776?  The myth of July 4th had become so established that even Thomas Jefferson and John Adams believed in their later years that they, along… Read the rest

Point of View [corrected]

This isn’t the first time I’ve received an email about this subject, but just a few days before our publication of Craig Bieber’s article introducing “Fred Longcoor,” I received the following (edited for spelling and punctuation):

[See Editor's note below… Read the rest

New Writers & Direction for JOO

During the last fifteen years of my work life, I was a strong believer and fervent practitioner of Continuous Improvement as a business strategy. So earlier this year when I suggested to John Hoyle that he consider using CI to… Read the rest

Editor's Lament: Why proofreed?

Most web savvy readers realize that blogging is really a unique style of journalism, more akin to writing emails than authoring a print article. Aside from coming up with subjects about which to write, for the editors of a journalistic… Read the rest