> If the writer knew what he was talking about, he wouldn’t have hyphenated the > word “coworking”. Duh!
I wish that were true. Editors, again, religiously follow the AP Stylebook and since coworking as a term is neither in the dictionary nor in the Stylebook, even the BEST writers who bring a convincing argument to their editors get their words hacked. For example, I spoke to the author of the recent Times article about coworking and vacations. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/business/co-working-on-vacation-a-desk-in-paradise.html?_r=0 She’s a really great journalist, and that article showed for it. But it had the hyphen. Here’s an excerpt from an email I had with her about a completely different article: Frustrating, but true. -Alex ------------------ The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:03 PM, M.E. Ralph <sdg.mont...@gmail.com> wrote: > If the writer knew what he was talking about, he wouldn't have hyphenated > the word "coworking". Duh! > On Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 2:31:48 AM UTC-7, Will Bennis, Locus > Workspace wrote: >> >> I have never been so pissed by an article on coworking: >> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/co-working-spaces-an-expensive-cure-for-loneliness >> >> Can't believe Bloomberg would publish this kind of financial analysis >> (treating the only cost of business as the lease cost). My ongoing struggle >> with running a coworking space has been with the fact that margins on >> memberships for the most part need to be lower than they should be to >> compete with spaces funded by grants, accelerators treating the space as a >> business cost for the hopeful investment payoff, big businesses using >> coworking spaces as mascots/advertising/sources of inspiration, or other >> spaces that are just operating at a loss because they underestimated the >> expenses involved in operating a space. >> >> Anyway, just putting this out there to promote some good old group >> resentment at the media. :) >> >> Anyone disagree and think Bloomberg got it right? >> >> Will >> >> > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
