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• Melinda McAdams' article Newspapers Online is written from a journalist's perspective (you can tell that by the words ``Data Highway'' in the title), but otherwise, although shorter, so similar to this text in tone and direction it scares me.

• Tim Berners-Lee: Style Guide for Online Hypertext
  The best organization - and the worst spelling and markup.

• Rob Jellinghaus' Create Your Audience shows some sound judgement.

• Webbed eCopy: The New Copywriting Rules for Online Content by Toronto writer and photographer Doug Lavender, is a modern, professional, and comprehensive discussion of web copywriting.

• Destructive Criticism Central: ``Resources on Bad Web Pages,'' a straightforward index no longer maintained by Steven M. Friedman.

• Karen Coyle: ACCESS: Not Just Wires
  Wise commentary about organization on an almost social scale.

• Rants and shots from the hip: Homepagitis, and CJ Silverio, on Why the Web sucks, II. Eric S. Raymond's The HTML Hell Page has a dictionary style similar to "Dangerous Words", but is wider in scope and gratifyingly bitchy in tone.

• As We May Think, by Vannevar Bush. (Head for section 6.)
  Bush's ``Memex'' is believed to be the first mentioning of non-linear text.

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
  The style manual. It is short enough to read online and has aged well since 1918.

• Politics and English, by George Orwell (1946).
  ``In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them.''
  (Not about hypertext, just sound advice on writing.)