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	<title>Alan Brandon &#187; Writing</title>
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		<title>AP accepts &#8220;website&#8221; as one word</title>
		<link>http://www.alanbrandon.com/2010/06/03/ap-accepts-website-as-one-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is old news (in more ways than one), but the AP Stylebook now officially endorses &#8220;website&#8221; as the one-word term for, you know, websites. The Wired Epicenter blog has a nice write-up:
Of course, the cool kids have  been tossing around “website” for at least a decade. But that’s the way  it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High-end and consumer UAVs</title>
		<link>http://www.alanbrandon.com/2010/02/28/high-end-and-consumer-uavs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portfolio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote two articles for Gizmag about UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). The market for these small, maneuverable drones is really taking off (OK, pun intended). The CyberQuad is a high-end industrial model designed for surveillance in areas that may be too dangerous for humans. For example, the CyberQuad has been used to investigate a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer avoiding crash blossoms</title>
		<link>http://www.alanbrandon.com/2010/02/16/writer-avoiding-crash-blossoms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paronomasia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a great post on the New York Time&#8217;s On Language blog about misleading headlines. I&#8217;ve always loved those humorously ambiguous headlines such as &#8220;Man helps dog bite victim,&#8221; or &#8220;Local high school dropouts cut in half.&#8221; It turns out there&#8217;s a term for these bloopers, and they&#8217;re called &#8220;crash blossoms.&#8221;
Mike O’Connell, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I once saw a party gorilla do it</title>
		<link>http://www.alanbrandon.com/2010/01/25/i-once-saw-a-party-gorilla-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great post on The Oatmeal called &#8220;How to use a semicolon &#8211; the most feared punctuation on Earth&#8220;.

The article pretty much covers it all and in an easy to understand way.  Also available as a poster. Two opposable thumbs up!
]]></description>
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		<title>I made Gizmag&#8217;s Top 20 list for 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.alanbrandon.com/2010/01/04/i-made-gizmags-top-20-list-for-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article I wrote about Honeywell&#8217;s new Windgate wind turbine made Gizmag&#8217;s Top 20 for 2009!
The article originally ran in June, and according to Gizmag&#8217;s database logs it was one of the top 20 most read articles during 2009.

Thanks to everybody who clicked through to read the article. I enjoy the work I do for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DITA 101 book review</title>
		<link>http://www.alanbrandon.com/2009/07/06/dita-101-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a lot out of Scott Abel&#8217;s book review of DITA 101: Fundamentals of DITA for Authors and Managers on The Content Wrangler — and I haven&#8217;t even read the book! I think Scott really nailed the progression of structured writing over the last decade or two.
&#8230; The personal computer, the World Wide Web, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training for tech writers</title>
		<link>http://www.alanbrandon.com/2009/05/05/training-for-tech-writers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 13:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just rediscovered John Hewitt&#8217;s excellent PoeWar blog, and I found a great article about trainers as a powerful resource for tech writers.
If you want help creating documentation, get to know the trainers. I am frequently amazed at how little communication some companies have between the training and the documentation departments. In many cases, the [...]]]></description>
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