Check your style guidelines..

I know that blogging is all about time to market and speed and all of that (usurped only by twitter et. al) and that clear writing and good editing are the antithesis to this speed.  And I admit that I don’t always put the time into editing my own posts that I should.

But there are still certain warts that get to me.

Twice in recent memory I’ve seen notations like this:

…gross ticket sales in 2010 were exactly $206,899,900 million…

(courtesy Techcrunch)

Of course, the company didn’t sell over 206 trillion dollars of tickets.  They sold 206 million.  Or 206,000,000.  Just not 206,000,000 million.

Sometimes it’s the small things.

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