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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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2010/01/please-dont-read-this-book/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2009/09/user-documentation-survey-2009/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2009/09/how-to-devalue-writers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2009/08/instruction-manuals-on-bbc-radio/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2009/08/everybody-needs-an-editor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2009/07/space-wars/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Lure of Modular Writing</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2008/07/the-lure-of-modular-writing/</link>
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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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2008/07/the-lure-of-modular-writing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2008/07/declining-writing-standards/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Orwell Prize</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2007/04/orwell-prize/</link>
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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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2007/04/orwell-prize/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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