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Ron Stauffer
Personal blog · ronstauffer.com/blogbusinesswriting
Ron Stauffer's personal blog at ronstauffer.com covers business and writing. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover AOL keywords from around 2010 and a comparison of Outlook's green shade in old and new versions. The comments cite them as examples and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Marketer and storyteller. Founder of Lieder Digital, Lieder AI, and WCAG Colorado. Author of The Solopreneur's Survival Guide to Business Networking, June 2026.
What Hacker News says?
What’s old is new again — AOL keywords! Here’s an article from 2010 talking about AOL keywords at the turn of the millennium: How many of you remember watching TV about a decade ago, and seeing commercials for large, well-known companies (and I mean really large ones—say, for example, Proctor & Gamble) and hearing “visit us on the world wide web at www.tidedetergent.com, or type in AOL Keyword: ‘laundry‘”? I was thi…
Comment linking /blog/remember-aol-keywords/
on “Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks”Submitted Remember AOL Keywords? (2010) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI personally find the "NOMIDDLEMAN" logo hard to read because the words blend together - maybe the word "middle" should be a lighter colour? On the "How we do it" page, there is some kind of gramatical error in this phrase: "...a product is marked up many by the time it reaches the customer..." I'm also not convinced by the explaination. In most cases the supply chain is simply Manufacturer -> Retailer -> Customer,…
Comment linking /blog/why-not-to-use-a-co-domain/
on “Show HN: Online Furniture. Why are conversions low?”They did change the shade of green, and the newer one is much less readable. See for yourself: Original: https://ronstauffer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/taking-a-pic... Current: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...
Comment linking /blog/wp-content/uploads/taking-a-picture-of-a-text-message-on-an-iphone.jpg
on “Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default”
