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		<title>Please don&#8217;t read this book</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy attending conferences, whether I am making a presentation or not. You get to meet interesting people, hear interesting talks, and see how other people give their presentations. From the point of view of watching and learning from other people, the TCUK09 Conference was enlightening. I was grateful for some positive feedback from my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>User Documentation Survey 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just launched my latest user documentation survey &#8211; click here to take part. 
Please do take part (it will only take you five minutes), and please pass this invitation on to anyone who might be interested. I&#8217;d like to get feedback from people who use the user documentation that comes with gadgets and software, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to devalue writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve commented before on how the unbridled passion for SEO has created a subculture of commoditised writing, where brokers are offering ridiculously low prices for &#8220;articles&#8221; sometimes paying as little as $1 for 200 words. No-one who lives in a western industrialised nation could afford to work for those rates, but there appear to plenty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Instruction manuals on BBC radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 message to a discussion list for teachers of technical writing, which was quickly forwarded to several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everybody needs an editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I am a little late in reacting to this &#8211; my excuse is that I&#8217;ve been on holiday &#8211; but I did like the way that Vanity Fair magazine got its editors to review and mark-up Sarah Palin&#8217;s resignation speech last month.
I&#8217;m not going to comment on Ms. Palin or her resignation, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 USA, after a period).
The background story is that for many years people learning to type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lure of Modular Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I started being more involved with a specific DITA product, I am seeing opportunities for modular writing everywhere. This may be a case of &#8220;when the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail&#8221;, but every new prospective technical writing assignment looks to me like an opportunity for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Declining writing standards?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone on LinkedIn Answers asked the question &#8220;Has writing gone the way of the Dodo?&#8221; and wrote that he didn&#8217;t mean that writing was extinct, just that standards of business writing appear to have declined. He provoked a lot of responses from writers, and his question certainly hit a nerve with me, so here&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orwell Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was very pleased to see that there&#8217;s an Orwell Prize for political writing in the UK. This year&#8217;s winner (for a book) was Professor Peter Hennessy (more), and the BBC 2 Newsnight programme also won a special award. Hennessy&#8217;s book, Having It So good: Britain In The Fifties, is on the Macmillan period, and [...]]]></description>
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