Charlie Southwell (@charliesaidthat) tweeted a link to an insightful article about the return on investment for social media. Social Media and ROI: Some clarity. (Again.) by Oliver Blanchard points out that the question, “What is the ROI for social media” is the wrong one: The question is too broad. Too general. It is like(…)
It’s not often tech writers get included in a meme, so I’ll post this here.
Great post over on Brain Pickings about what’s wrong with media today — based on an editorial from 1923! The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager, by Maria Popova, looks at today’s media issues such as SOPA, copyright, and content farms through the lens of an article titled “Our Changing(…)
I love references, and this Visual Glossary of Screws, Nuts, and Washers by Mike Senese warms my hardware-writer’s heart. Mike’s talking about BoltDepot, which looks like a great source. I remember writing user docs with an entire appendix dedicated to port pinouts and diagrams. And I always kept a copy of the Black Box catalog(…)
Just before the holidays I finished some editing work on a book called Passion in the Wind, which is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and from the author, Alan Leduc. The title might sound like a bad romance novel, but the book tells the true story of Alan’s 23000 mile ride around North(…)
…And the answer is not 4G. I have spent most of my career writing about telecommunications including networking, telephony, and cellular/radio. When I started in the tech writing biz cellular standards were at 2G. Next came 3G. Then came something AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon claim is 4G but isn’t. Doug Aamoth at Time’s Techland explains(…)
