AtD This Week – 21 Jun 09
Last week was a busy week. I spent a lot of time winning new friends to After the Deadline. The response has been positive so far. In between that, I also fixed some bugs, created a few new ones, and fixed those too. Here are the updates from this week:
Rule Updates
This week was more about tweaking the rule base. I’ve added determiner agreement rules for “there’s” to reflect the existing rules for there are and there is. I added a rule for its vs. it’s which caught several errors in the Wikipedia simple corpus I test with. I also added a few redundant expressions (“innovative new”) and updated some complex expressions.
Buzz
A few bloggers have written up their impressions of After the Deadline this past week:
- http://networking.seadvd.com/after-the-deadline-polishes-your-writing-online/
- http://www.barrysbestblog.com/2009/06/after-deadline-improve-your-writing.html
- http://kjctech.net/Blog/archive/2009/06/16/web-application-that-helps-blog-better.aspx
- http://buildanichestoreblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/wordpress-grammer-spelling-style-missed.html
- http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/06/16/after-the-deadline-polishes-your-writing-online/
At first I was surprised to see write ups and traffic but few referrers in my server logs. It looks like many are linking to www.polishmywriting.com and to the WordPress plugin repository directly. No problem. I appreciate the love for After the Deadline. If you use AtD be sure to share it with your community.