Month: September 2010

On Curmudgeonliness or Why I’m Not Going to Say “Yeah, Yeah,” But I’m At Least Going to Try To Be More Nice About It

This post has been a long time coming, and is probably going to be painful to write. But I need to try to write my way through it, so here goes. I’ve been noticing a shift in my tone lately, from my usual kind and questioning self to someone a bit angrier and less willing […]

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The Week in Tweets for 2010-09-06

Good Monday. I hope. # “Overuse of links is usually a sign that the writer does not know how to link, which on the Web means he…” http://instapaper.com/zoilh861i # @twoodwar @techsavvyed That's easy. You assume the best intentions of your users. And if they mess up, you deal with that. in reply to twoodwar # […]

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Writing Sprints

I first became aware of the idea of a writing sprint when I saw . Since then, I’ve learned that .  One I like a lot. So we did one in our office today, and it was useful.  We scheduled a block of time, sat down, and wrote.  We weren’t all writing the same things, […]

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