March 2010
3 posts
Web service for "assemble-your-own-book" market? →
My friend and former co-worker, Dave, writes:
Many years ago, when I was a technical writer, my team explored the option of moving away from writing the source files for documentation as actual document files (FrameMaker, Word, etc.) and towards writing them as heavily-indexed articles in a database out of which we could assemble documents as needed. The idea being that if you wanted a ...
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A social network for close friends? [Updated]
Ok, last of the ideas for the night.
The thing I have noticed about social networks is that I have a lot of “friends”, but I cannot say I am terribly close to most of them. Seems like the connections are shallow and not deep.
Don’t get me wrong. It is nice to get status updates from classmates I haven’t seen in 20 years or co-workers who left the company a year ago. As a Gub noted when we ran...
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I moved Spontaneous Ideas again
I moved Spontaneous Ideas to another tumblr blog so that others can post to it and I can free up the old blog to be my lifestream. The domain and feeds and the like should update. If you get extra messages in your RSS feed besides this one, just ignore them.