Comments on: “Regular Sloggers Trying to Make a Living”

By: Tracy Robinson

Tracy Robinson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:51:21 +0000

As a lawyer, I’m used to writing for a living, although blogging is much more conversational than legal writing. My biggest problem with planning my blog is that I want to include too much information- it seems like almost everything I see I want to blog about! This is why I have stepped back and spent some time looking into productivity addons (such as scribefire for firefox) to try to make blogging on the law as efficient as possible.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:39:23 +0000

Thanks, Tom for this blog, thanks Brian for your tip -I found Snagit”old” and am using it during some of my DTP exercises.
Anne, thanks for your “welcome”, I’m not sure whether you are being cynical about TC, I’m sure you must feel a little like you are in a prison, sometimes, Tech writing is very rigid. Then again most work environments are. We all find outlets for our creativity and excess energies (Like blogging, maybe?) I road-bike – Kilometer after kilometer, thats my Yoga; and I cook, thats my creative outlet.
Anyway, as we say here, Shabat shalom, have great weekends.

By: anne

anne — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:37:07 +0000

In response to Nick, welcome to the tightrope walking of tech writing. We’re all alogging, really. It’s the nature of the job. We’re not really programmers, but are often called upon to write some code in the language du jour. We’re not really designers, but often have constructive advice on the UI. Likewise with usability. And we write, but within the tight constraints of technical documentation.

Blogging is freeing, really. All thos constraints get loosened and we can write prose that even includes the word “I” sometimes. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas.

Oh, and +1 on Snagit… Great program! Worth every penny.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:13:55 +0000

The free version is still squirrelled away on a few websites including one of my favourites, OldApps.com. Here’s a link to SnagIt:

http://www.oldapps.com/SnagIT.php

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:44:32 +0000

I like SnagIt. An older version was free but not anymore. New it costs about $40. You can always create screenshots using your print screen key and mspaint.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:45:40 +0000

Ok, to business
Can someone recommend the best way to make a “screen capture”? Is there a handy little utility that does this. Can a screen capture be shaped, instead of being a square “chicklet” with out using an expensive graphics prog’. I’ve been recommended a util’ called screen hunter This is quite cool tho’ a bit basic.
Thanx.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:47:05 +0000

Thanks for your reply. Sorry it got trapped in the spam queue. I usually get 100+ or more spam messages a day and simply hit delete all, so thanks for letting me know you got a flag. I like the analogy you mentioned.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:13:07 +0000

Thanx for your informative and helpful reply, and thanx for not condescending!! From the video and your reply, I think I’m getting the idea. Whereby the internet is a giant library (you remember, those huge buildings filled with lots of books and people afraid to make a noise), a blog is a reading club for people with simalar interests. Nice idea, it kind of makes fun of the cynical everyday world by giving people the opportunity to share, or, for shared info, or absolutely for gratis. I’m sure people use this medium for advertising, but what the hell! I shall surely be contributing to this sites blogs in the future, in the mean time Well done and keep up the good work.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:36:39 +0000

What phenomenal technical communication! The fast pace and concise descriptions are really easily absorbed. Thanks for posting the video!

By: Writing

Writing — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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