The internet is no longer a formal place. The Associated Press made their annual announcement of changes to the 2016 Stylebook at this week's ACES conference. The biggest changes were to web-related terms. Internet and web both will be lowercase, starting June 1. The current Stylebook rule calls for Internet to be capitalized because it is … [Read more...]
Nerd Note: Writing Web Words
We don't really call the Internet the World Wide Web anymore, but we do still write a lot of web-related words. For example, website, webcam, webcast, and webmaster all are one word. If you are including a website's address (URL) in a story, use the entire address. For example, https://www.profkrg.com. But Web is capitalized when referring to … [Read more...]
United Nations: Internet access is a human right
You have the right to life, liberty and security. You have the right to freedom from slavery and torture. You have the right to nationality. You have the right to Facebook? Internet access is a human right, according to a United Nations report released last week. You can view a list of the other rights in The Universal Declaration of … [Read more...]