In Together or Apart: Collaboration Models for Technical Writing, Tom Johnson reflects on using a book sprint for producing technical documentation and in community projects. This would be an interesting approach for producing an open textbook at a conference.

Just read Carole Baron's piece at the Huffington Post. Our department is planning a manuscript editing class as a new edition to our curriculum.

Ars Technica reports in their lengthy review of Windows 7 (this is a good read for those who want to see an in-depth comparison of Vista and Windows 7) that WordPad in Windows 7 supports OpenOffice .odt files. In some brief experimentation with it, I found Word Pad cable of reproducing the basic formatting that people use most of the time in word processing documents.

Read on Slashdot, ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples.

I don't believe in bashing on kids playing video games. In moderation, most of them are fine.

But Guitar Hero (sigh!). I wish kids would learn this other interface instead of the game console remote: Nine-year-old plays Ozzy

Thanks to Boing Boing for this video.

Gotta remember this great article from Smashing Magazine when doing the WPA Council website redesign this spring: How To Use Help Elements To Improve Your Designs.