Ever had an editing discussion that degenerated into a pointless argument about a silly obsolete Latin-based grammar rule? An oldie but a goodie, this article by no-nonsense tech writer Jean Weber is a breath of fresh air. That's a PossumMaster...
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Online course for web content writers
Last year I discovered something strange. Or rather I failed to discover something simple. Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but I couldn't find any self-study online courses on writing web content. Sure, there are various regular courses provided by...
Books by presidential candidates on the couch
Most books by politicians are, at bottom, acts of salesmanship: efforts to persuade, beguile or impress the reader, efforts to rationalize past misdeeds and inoculate the author against future accusations. And yet beneath the sales pitch are clues — in...
Reading you, reading me
I'm trialling masseuses. They think they are giving me a massage and capturing a new client. I think I am asking them a question: are you worthy to handle my body ever again, let alone regularly? Yesterday Kylie (not her...
No topic is boring
Once I had to edit a report on The Drainage System of Upper Hutt. To my surprise, after a while it became interesting. Then it struck me: no document is intrinsically or necessarily boring, because whatever the topic, it's all...