Today’s version of tech writer hell…

Posted on Friday, June 29th, 2007

…going through 140+ structured Frame files to find 4-mile-long IDs for topics, concepts, and tasks and then shortening them so:

writers new to structured authoring are spared the tedium (and the accompanying freak-out factor) of doing [...]

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Oh for the love of…

Posted on Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

The topic that wouldn’t die – Fred Sampson’s Radio Blog
*heavy sigh*
Topic that wouldn’t die, indeed….more like, it’s the gross misunderstanding that refuses to die.
I shouldn’t be surprised. Misinterpretation is way more sexy, after all. [...]

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Reaping what someone else sows…

Posted on Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Will Kelly: Why your coworkers think you are a technical writer with a stick up your a**
I hear ya, Will. By all the gods, do I hear you.
I came across something like this when I [...]

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I’d rather be writing

Posted on Monday, September 19th, 2005

Tech Writing, Just for the Fun of It
A tech writer tries to prevent others from making the same mistake he did: becoming a technical writer.

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HR & Tech Writing: Separated at Birth?

Posted on Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Why We Hate HR
Another good read from Fast Company, counting all the ways in which corporate personnel departments are failing.
Toward the end of the article:
In the meantime, economic natural selection is, in a way, taking [...]

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