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Category Archives: Writing tech

What the Internet has done for writing

Found this while browsing through the popular writing-related links on social bookmarking site Delicious. I can’t help but get a little annoyed at the $2-blog-writing schemes, SEO “content” farms, and a general deterioration of originality, voice, and real content that passes for so-called writing online.
Now I have an image to conjure whenever this black mood [...]

Posted 06 August 2008 † gordon § Just a thought § Links § Rants § Writing § Writing craft ‡ Comments (1)

Surveying the Web Workers Among Us

I’m not sure how applicable this survey is to the AtMFA readership. Still, I find it interesting when anyone tries to take a snapshot of the web industry–particularly the creative side. From the site:
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again [...]

Posted 29 July 2008 † gordon § Links § Work § Writing ‡ Comments (1)

The Last Word on Word?

I’ve talked before about being a bit of a dork about writing technology. Full-screen editing; minimal distractions; storing notes, links, and research together in handy projects; there’s plenty of sexy stuff when writing on a computer.
On this topic, Author Steven Poole’s got a lively post on his blog about giving up on Microsoft Word. Something [...]

Posted 04 September 2007 † gordon § Links § Writing § Writing process ‡ Comments (3)