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	<title>David Farbey&#039;s Marginal Notes</title>
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		<title>On Awards and Algorithms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am very proud to be listed as No. 8 on MindTouch&#8217;s list of Tech Comm Influencers for 2011. Nevertheless, and despite that fact that I don&#8217;t have a good success record at questioning awards I receive (or don&#8217;t receive), &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2012/01/on-awards-and-algorithms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Following punctuation rules? Don&#8217;t forget to think!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ugur Akinci published a useful post earlier this week on The Discipline of Punctuation in Technical Writing. I agree with Ugur&#8217;s general point, that technical writing needs to display &#8220;discipline, precision, and consistency&#8221;, and with many of his specific statements, &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2012/01/following-punctuation-rules-dont-forget-to-think/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Plenty of UK events in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy new year everyone. If you are interested in technical communication, information design, or content strategy (or any combination of the three!) there&#8217;s a lot going on in the UK in 2012. Here are just a few of the highlights &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/12/plenty-of-uk-events-in-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Minimum Effective Dose&#8221; of Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I spoke at the Congility Conference in May 2011 I used the phrase &#8220;minimum effective dose&#8221; to describe the amount of content we need to deliver to our users. This is a phrase that arose in discussions about content &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/11/the-minimum-effective-dose-of-content/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t write about the &#8220;Cancel&#8221; button</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/10/dont-write-about-the-cancel-button/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my opinion, when you are creating task-based help topics for software users you don&#8217;t necessarily need to write about the Cancel button in a dialog box. Here&#8217;s why. Task-based user help is meant to help users do their job. &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/10/dont-write-about-the-cancel-button/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Be a &#8220;pig&#8221; not a &#8220;chicken&#8221;!</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/09/be-a-pig-not-a-chicken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In agile software development team members often distinguish between two kinds of participants, &#8221;pigs&#8221; and &#8220;chickens&#8221;. The allusion is to a meal of bacon-and-eggs, in which a chicken may have an interest but to which a pig is &#8220;fully commited&#8221;! At &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/09/be-a-pig-not-a-chicken/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Another Myth About Content</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/09/another-myth-about-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for a few more comments from me on Myths About Content. (For myths 1 and 2 please see my earlier post.) Myth no. 3 &#8211; Content is easy to find One of the most pervasive myths about content is that &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/09/another-myth-about-content/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Myths About Content</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/08/myths-about-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who aren&#8217;t directly involved in creating content often hold a set of beliefs about what content is and how it is created that can only be described as myths. That may sound a little harsh, because believing in myths &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/08/myths-about-content/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not quite a re-launch</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/08/not-quite-a-re-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have changed the title and the strap-line of my blog, and you may be wondering why. Let me explain. Conventional writing and publishing is about delivering messages from the writer to the reader: the reader&#8217;s only response is to &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/08/not-quite-a-re-launch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Congility conference retrospective</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/05/congility-conference-retrospective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 15:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent the last two days at the Congility conference, held near London, and chaired by Noz Urbina of Mekon. This event is the successor to the X-Pubs conferences held in previous years, and was all about making your content &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2011/05/congility-conference-retrospective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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