After much research and discussion, the editorial team has decided to leave AP Style for Wired magazine when it comes to internet terms. We're in the process of updating the style guide now; here's a preview of what's changed:
- internet (lowercase "i"); "net" is an acceptable short form (lowercase, no starting apostrophe)
- online (no hyphen; consistent with AP)
- e-mail (the "e" is never capped; e-Mail if used in a title or as the first word in a sentence)
- web, web site, web page
- World Wide Web
These terms will all be under a single heading in the TU editorial style guide, "Internet."
A strong resource for this decision was a 2004 editor's note from Wired magazine, "It's Just the "internet" Now:
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/08/64596
Thursday, December 13, 2007
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