In our last, brief post of 2008, we wanted to invite our readers to make our New Year’s resolutions for us. It’s not that we’re lazy (if we were, that would be a resolution right there); it’s that we want your objective readerly advice as to how we can make this site better. Any features that you’d like to see more of—or that you could do without? Subjects you think we should tackle more often—or not at all? People you think would make perfect interview subjects for us, or special tobacco brands you would commend for use in Blad J. Garamond’s pipe? No suggestion is too big or too small. One resolution we’ve made already is to stimulate more reader comments and discussion, so speak your piece and help us keep our promise.
We will have another short post up this Friday, January 2, after which regular posts will resume on Monday, January 5. Enjoy the New Year’s bacchanal, try not to get crushed by the touristic rabble, and drink a cup of kindness yet for what should be a very eventful year.
Hmmm, New Year’s resolutions.
Wow, you like living dangerously to let other people suggest resolutions.
1. Contests. They get you linked everywhere.
2. Something like a Dear Abbeville column, only for grammar questions.
3. Periodic grammar lessons that people can archive and reference to.
4. Updates on the changing world of grammar regarding preferred styles.
Now, I’m off to write to write my lovely tome
I’m hoping soon will find a home.
Julie
Nobody mixes book editing and danger quite like we do.
1. Done.
2. Great idea, and we’ll give it a shot–but why stop at grammar? We’re Arbiters of more than that, you know. We’ll open the floor to book, art, publishing, and style questions as well. Entertaining answers will be guaranteed; useful ones will not be.
3 & 4. Also good ideas, but they sound a bit too serious for this site. We don’t want to look in the mirror and find that, lo, we have become our orange enemy! (We also don’t want to take on the kind of difficult research and compilation work that Chicago does.)
Thanks for the help and suggestions, much appreciated!