<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354171578524044422.post8482407846795765235..comments</id><updated>2009-05-20T04:58:32.159+01:00</updated><category term='articles'/><category term='users'/><category term='user-focus'/><category term='templates'/><category term='value'/><category term='&quot;Becoming Jane&quot;'/><category term='tools'/><category term='support'/><category term='irony'/><category term='documentation'/><category term='BCS'/><category term='FrameMaker'/><category term='world English'/><category term='English'/><category term='document management'/><category term='Private Eye'/><category term='authority vs. collaboration'/><category term='community'/><category term='films'/><category term='Alfresco'/><category term='Office 2003'/><category term='user generated content'/><category term='help'/><category term='software development'/><category term='grammar'/><category term='plain English'/><category term='Huddle'/><category term='technical writer training'/><category term='business advantage'/><category term='content management'/><category term='typography'/><category term='customer focus'/><category term='authoring tools'/><category term='modular writing'/><category term='jargon'/><category term='embedded help'/><category term='survey'/><category term='crime'/><category term='web 2.0'/><category term='wikis'/><category term='euphemism'/><category term='family'/><category term='technical writing'/><category term='Ecademy'/><category term='Office 2007'/><category term='user documentation'/><category term='markup'/><category term='Facebook'/><category term='blogs'/><category term='teaching'/><category term='user focus'/><category term='reading'/><category term='DITA'/><category term='apostrophe'/><category term='jane Austen'/><category term='research'/><category term='agile programming'/><category term='spam; art; poetry'/><category term='security'/><category term='students'/><category term='SharePoint'/><category term='Microsoft Word'/><category term='InDesign'/><category term='XML'/><category term='language'/><category term='OASIS'/><category term='user assistance'/><category term='distance learning'/><category term='usage'/><category term='networking'/><category term='etymology'/><category term='user education'/><category term='pedantry'/><category term='online'/><category term='Blair'/><category term='wikipedia'/><category term='social networks'/><category term='Orwell'/><category term='product management'/><category term='Sheffield Hallam'/><category term='surveys'/><category term='usabilty'/><category term='history'/><category term='design'/><category term='standards'/><category term='readability'/><category term='OED'/><category term='STC'/><category term='UGC'/><category term='academic'/><category term='writing'/><category term='tech writing'/><title type='text'>Comments on The Blockhead Blog: Tech writers are special</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.theblockheadblog.co.uk/feeds/8482407846795765235/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7354171578524044422/8482407846795765235/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.theblockheadblog.co.uk/2009/05/tech-writers-are-special.html'/><author><name>David Farbey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01802930753043960426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Po0KyxuxuEE/S8F5MDpG8TI/AAAAAAAADMI/syJ61clurNY/S220/DF_Dec2009_kz02.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354171578524044422.post-6900234757785789495</id><published>2009-05-20T04:58:32.159+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-20T04:58:32.159+01:00</updated><title type='text'>I crabbed about it loudly at the STC conference in...</title><content type='html'>I crabbed about it loudly at the STC conference in Minneapolis a couple years ago to no avail... the definition of "technical communicator" (note, *not* technical writer) does not in any way indicate that the person with that title writes. The words write, writer, writing, etc. do not appear at all in that definition.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7354171578524044422/8482407846795765235/comments/default/6900234757785789495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7354171578524044422/8482407846795765235/comments/default/6900234757785789495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.theblockheadblog.co.uk/2009/05/tech-writers-are-special.html?showComment=1242791912159#c6900234757785789495' title=''/><author><name>Mike Starr</name><uri>http://www.writestarr.com/</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.theblockheadblog.co.uk/2009/05/tech-writers-are-special.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354171578524044422.post-8482407846795765235' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7354171578524044422/posts/default/8482407846795765235' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1586859800'/></entry></feed>
