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		<title>Same as it ever was</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great post over on Brain Pickings about what&#8217;s wrong with media today &#8212; based on an editorial from 1923! The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager, by Maria Popova, looks at today&#8217;s media issues such as SOPA, copyright, and content farms through the lens of an article titled &#8220;Our Changing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screws, nuts, and washers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love references, and this Visual Glossary of Screws, Nuts, and Washers by Mike Senese warms my hardware-writer&#8217;s heart. Mike&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find me on Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before the holidays I finished some editing work on a book called Passion in the Wind, which is now available on Amazon, Barnes &#38; 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&#8217;s 23000 mile ride around North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4G or not 4G, that is the question</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;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&#38;T, Sprint, and Verizon claim is 4G but isn&#8217;t. Doug Aamoth at Time&#8217;s Techland explains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Any doc, any place?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the combination of responsive web design, modern content tools such as Madcap Flare, and the proliferation of mobile internet devices for viewing content, it has become so much easier for technical communicators to design and create documentation that meets the need of their audience when — and where — they users need it. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<title>Boston Globe gets responsive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m impressed so far with the redesign of the Boston Globe website. The new layout is clean and easy to use, but best of all it now features responsive design so that the page display adapts to whatever device you view it on. I have only casually browsed the site so far, but I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee jargon</title>
		<link>http://www.alanbrandon.com/2011/08/29/coffee-jargon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Serious Eats, Erin Meister has a series of coffee dictionary posts, explaining the specialized terms related to that most precious tech-writer-fueling drink. So if you don&#8217;t know your canephora from your arabica, or the difference between a cafe au lait and a cafe con leche, grab a cuppa and check out the articles.]]></description>
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		<title>Product documentation as a Marketing asset</title>
		<link>http://www.alanbrandon.com/2011/08/13/product-documentation-as-a-marketing-asset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got to love an article that starts: It’s important to understand what clever technology developers and open source leaders have known for years: Great product documentation isn’t loathsome — it’s marketing, and darn good marketing at that. Mike Puterbaugh, VP of marketing at MindTouch, has a great read at Mashable titled 5 Reasons Your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commas, serial commas, and Oxford commas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I know serial commas and Oxford commas are the same thing. But I needed a third item in my headline list so I could use one. Have you heard the brouhaha about Oxford University eliminating the namesake comma from its own style guide? (And here we must note that Oxford University uses a different [...]]]></description>
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