Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Chicks against the machine The Dixie Chicks beat back Diane Sawyer on national TV, posed nude for Entertainment Weekly and stood up to the reactionary zeal of country radio. In a time of crisis for America, they're patriots we can be proud of. [Salon] 1:40:36 PM     It's Time to Shift Into Overdrive What happens when mass storage leaves microchips in the dust? J. Bradford DeLong explains in this commentary from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 1:39:54 PM     Single Sourcing: Building Modular Documentation Scott Abel writes "Kurt Ament has hit the nail on the head! His latest effort, Single Sourcing: Building Modular Documentation is a valuable reference for those of us who seek to save time, effort, and money by implementing a productive method of creating information once and reusing it often." Ament covers the issues -- step by step -- that many others only discuss. He lays out a simple roadmap, complete with real world examples that have worked -- or not worked -- for his clients. And, he does us all a big favor by addressing the negatives associated with using technology to assemble documents by explaining that it actually takes more creativity to write content that can fit into multiple media, for multiple audiences, than it does to continually rewrite information over and over again each time it is needed. [Slashdot] 1:34:45 PM

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