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Response to “Blogging: A New Role for Technical Communicators”

April 8th 2009

Tom Johnson recently wrote in his post “Blogging: A New Role for Technical Communicators”
Although it may be early to tell, surely some keeping up with web trends is in order. As such, technical writers have somewhat of a new role to play (or at least to reconcile) in the realm of web 2.0. Of the [...]

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Have Notebook Will Travel

March 29th 2009

I am a guest contributor on Tom Johnson’s “I’d Rather Be Writing” website. My article “Have Notebook Will Travel” details the basic survival techniques required when documenting in an Agile environment.
The meetings were a frenzied walk around of fifteen minute stand-ups between 12 working development teams. I listened, took notes, asked questions, and scheduled followups [...]

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Facebook – Complete Failure

March 11th 2009

Facebook = a very sad experiment.
I see the honey, dripping addictive nature the FB offers, but I don’t buy it. Why?
I’m a professional writer and photographer. I’ll be damned if my work is ever going to be taken by someone without my express permission.
Also? Privacy is just too grey. Sure, I can bury myself in [...]

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Driving the Bloodway

December 8th 2008

Watercolor smears bright on dark night canvas to show black the door. Stars fade, smog bands blend and rise with noise of a hundred thousand hungry industrial animals hitting tires down on the freeway.
I belt in, bend the key, torture my ride to life, blink the lights open and grind it into motion.
Go.
Little time passes.
Four [...]

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