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Wednesday, 11 October 2006

Google to Merge Writely and Spreadsheets to Form Google Docs

Posted on 02:17 by Unknown
Breaking news: Google will announce tomorrow at the Office 2.0 conference a new product called Google Docs, which will merge Writely and Google Spreadsheets into a collaboration and document management solution, according to sources.

The new offering will be available at docs.google.com, although that address produces a 404 error right now. [Read more]

docs.google.com works now.
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Saturday, 7 October 2006

A technical writer's worst enemy is another technical writer

Posted on 00:03 by Unknown
Why your coworkers think you are a technical writer with a stick up your a** [Read more]

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Thursday, 5 October 2006

Use Old Words When Writing for Findability

Posted on 03:55 by Unknown
"Familiar words spring to mind when users create their search queries.
If your writing favors made-up terms over legacy words, users won't
find your site."
[Read more on Useit.com]


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Thursday, 28 September 2006

Quality of Communication

Posted on 05:19 by Unknown
Although technically, e-mail (with or without a hyphen) and its even faster cousins, IM and text messaging, make communicating across time and distance a breeze, it's still the quality of the communication that counts. [via Wired]

Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
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Thursday, 17 August 2006

Death to Caps Lock

Posted on 00:13 by Unknown
"The antagonism toward the Caps Lock key extends beyond its misuse by 13-year-old trolls and naive users. Caps Lock is also responsible for failed entries of passwords and other case-sensitive phrases. Users of word processors are forced to retype any text that was entered with Caps Lock accidentally turned on." [via Wired]

Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
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Thursday, 10 August 2006

A Comma Worth $2.13 Million

Posted on 01:50 by Unknown
A grammatical blunder may force Rogers Communications Inc. to pay an extra $2.13-million to use utility poles in the Maritimes after the placement of a comma in a contract permitted the deal's cancellation. [Read More]
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Tuesday, 8 August 2006

e-learning 2.0 - how Web technologies are shaping education

Posted on 22:14 by Unknown
Written by Steve O'Hear and edited by Richard MacManus. This is a two-part series in which Steve will explore how Web technologies are being used in education. Read on!
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