The Identity of the Hakawai' was published by ornithologist Colin Miskelly in June 1987 in NOTORNIS. Miskelly is a fluent and versatile writer, so the article is an interesting snap of his early style. Conventions for academic journals are strong,...
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Test of a good thriller
The test of a good thriller is suspension of disbelief: am I having such a good time that I don't hear the voice of common sense in my head? You know the moment, when a James Bond type gets a...
Intranet pages are not memos
One reason why intranet ROT becomes such a problem is that staff write web pages as if they were memos. Now, memos hit the desk every day, and one memo often cancels, contradicts or expands on a previous memo. Staff...
People who write stuff for work
Many organisations (especially universities) have satisfactory support systems for those who create or manage web content. Indeed, some are superior to the support for 'ordinary' work writers. And there's the rub: online writing is separated out as special, unusual, not...
Poems for the Web Me-Too
Web 2.0 is a term that gets up people's noses, so I'm going to call 'it' Web Me-Too. You know what I mean. I am looking for poems that speak about Web Me-Too, and today, this one jumped out at...