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Technical Author - Red Gate Software
angry ranting
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Posted Monday, September 26, 2011 4:50 PM |
Last week, at the Technical Communication UK conference, I did a little lightning talk. It wasn't very nice. This is perhaps unsurprising, given that the session was billed as "rants" - an opportunity for people to get things off their chests. Boy, did Read More
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Posted Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:41 PM |
The 3D edition of Tron: Legacy opens with embedded user assistance. The film starts with an iconic white-on-black command-prompt message exhorting viewers to keep their 3D glasses on throughout. I can't quote it verbatim, and at the time of writing nor Read More
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Posted Tuesday, November 23, 2010 2:09 PM |
Regardless of how good it is, you'd have to have a heart of stone not to make snide remarks about Rockmelt. After all, on the surface it looks a lot like some people spent two years building a browser instead of just bashing out a Chrome extension over Read More
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Posted Monday, November 08, 2010 1:02 PM |
Or at least find a way to use it right. Last week, a blog I read went off on a bit of a rant about Instagram. The post seems to be suffering from a little data vs information befuddlement, and a slight miss-location of the value of photographs. But Read More
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Posted Wednesday, October 27, 2010 10:54 AM |
I came across three things a while back that made me smile: Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text An article in the Onion, gently needling the atrophy of reading and attention Big Graphic Blueprint Nathan Yau at Flowing Read More
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Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:22 AM |
Last week, over on a blog called Flyosity, there was a post: Your design is wrong I liked it, I liked it a lot. Although many of the errors it cites may seem like rather small things, I absolutely buy the idea of objective design mistakes. It got me Read More
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Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:28 PM |
There was one of those little laugh-or-cry moments recently when I heard an anecdote about content strategy failings at a major online retailer. The story goes a bit like this: successful company in a highly commoditized marketplace succeeds on price Read More
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Posted Tuesday, February 02, 2010 3:09 PM |
"Technical communications" is, let's be honest, quite a vague term. I think this is fantastic. More than that, I think it's important. Some folks don't agree. I'm deeply baffled as to why. What a technical communicator isn't In a discussion about what Read More
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Posted Monday, January 04, 2010 12:25 PM |
The discipline of theodicy is a branch of theology and philosophy. It attempts to reconcile various belief systems with the existence of evil. By way of a simple - if fatuous - example, it addresses questions like why a god might allow bad things to happen Read More
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Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:46 AM |
There's a technical communications email discussion list I'm part of. It has a bit of bickering about commas, sure, but also interesting things. Some of those things make me cranky. Recently, discussion turned to social networking, and I got quite, quite Read More
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Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 12:31 PM |
I just got back from the Technical Communication UK conference. It was pretty good, with excellent presentations from (among others) Chris Atherton, Gordon McLean, Matthew Ellison, and Kath Straub. Looking back over my notes, for Kath Straub's presentation Read More
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Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:51 AM |
At last night's Information Design Association presentation, David Sless talked about benchmarking research for credit card statements. This was quite interesting. Almost as interesting was that he seemed at near circumloquitous pain to avoid the word Read More
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