Thursday, December 13, 2007

changes to internet terms

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

1 comment:

Gallycat said...

Interesting that you guys are going with web site given the battles over the years between Web site and website. :)

And also even more interesting that you're blogging style updates. That's pretty nifty!

Helen