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Instruction manuals on BBC radio
BBC Radio 4 is presenting a half-hour documentary on instruction manuals this Friday 21st August at 11:00am. One of the interviewees is Simon Butler, President of the ISTC. A few weeks ago, the researcher working on this programme posted a … Continue reading
Technical writer and proud of it
An Australian technical writing consultancy, Abelard, have prompted a great deal of debate in the last couple of weeks by asking technical writers to take part in a survey to suggest an alternative name for our profession. The Abelard survey … Continue reading
Everybody needs an editor
I know I am a little late in reacting to this – my excuse is that I’ve been on holiday – but I did like the way that Vanity Fair magazine got its editors to review and mark-up Sarah Palin’s … Continue reading
STC joins the blogosphere
I am delighted to see that the Society for Technical Communication (STC) has joined the blogosphere, with what appears to be a WordPress powered site at http://notebook.stc.org. As a recent convert to WordPress myself, I am delighted to see that … Continue reading
Space Wars
There is a danger that the space wars may erupt all over again. Not a war in space, thank goodness but a war about the number of spaces to put after a full stop (or if you are from the … Continue reading
The Security Clearance paradox
Summer is often a slow time for new work, and this year the general economic situation has made things much work. I have been reading various job boards to see if there are any technical writing contract jobs that I might be suitable for. In a number of otherwise promising vacancy notices I have come across what I call the “security clearance paradox” Continue reading
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Moving right along
I’m not the sort of person who jumps on every new bandwagon that comes along. No, I wait for them to pass me by and then run like mad to catch up. Many other technical writers started blogging long before … Continue reading
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Moving to WordPress
This is my first post on my new WordPress powered site. Although I was a little bit nervous about making the great leap forward to WordPress, after years of hand-coded HTML and CSS, I have found the move surprisingly easy. … Continue reading
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