Articles Tagged with communication

Maxwell House, emmer and TikTok

Published on September 30, 2025September 29, 2025 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

A matter of concentration

How long is your attention span?

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Writing for oneself

Published on September 23, 2025September 22, 2025 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Knowing the audience

Even with the least important message, you should keep in mind who is to read it.

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Spoken or written

Published on March 11, 2025March 10, 2025 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Proper language

The two aspects sometimes sit uneasily together.

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Tropical Storm Garace

Published on March 4, 2025March 3, 2025 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The other side of the world

It’s been stormy.  Have you noticed?

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Christmas cards (II)

Published on December 10, 2024December 8, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Chronicles

Including the unimportant is important.

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Push or pull?

Published on November 22, 2022November 21, 2022 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Moving information

How do you decide what you need to know?

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Reading the dial (III)

Published on March 8, 2022March 7, 2022 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Displaying the data

Communicating science can be difficult, even to and by scientists.

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Morse code

Published on January 5, 2021January 3, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

High-speed digital communication

The telegraph required a new way of writing messages.

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Professional writing

Published on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

and professional reading

Some writing is not what we’d expect.

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The lovers’ lodestone

Published on March 7, 2017March 5, 2017 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

A prehistory of wireless telegraphy

It was much more difficult to stay in touch 300 years ago.  A literary magazine from that era has a suggestion for a surprisingly modern way to do it.

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