Re: Bad Documentation and Linux

Subject: Re: Bad Documentation and Linux
From: Pro TechWriter <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 23:26:37 -0600

I can understand remaining anonymous, but it's the reporters fault if he/she
used the attribution without validating it :-) . Bad journalism. Or the
person interviewed could have said they wanted to use a pseudonym.

But shoulda, woulda, coulda, as they say.

PT

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Edgar D' Souza <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:

> FWIW - in the page at
> http://www.technewsworld.com/story/68798.html?wlc=1259948629 the name
> "Barbara Hudson" is a hyperlink to http://slashdot.org/~tomhudson
>
> Cheers,
> Ed.
>
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>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> > If I was posting blogs stating that few of my clients, past or present,
> had ever
> > paid me to produce good documentation, I wouldn't be using my real name,
> either
> > as a blog ID or in interviews.
> >
> > Gene Kim-Eng
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pro TechWriter" <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>
> >> Tried to look her up too--there was a man with the same last name, but
> no
> >> Barbara.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> Also, there doesn't seem to be a Slashdot blogger named Barbara Hudson.
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References:
Bad Documentation and Linux: From: Dana Worley
Re: Bad Documentation and Linux: From: Robert Lauriston
Re: Bad Documentation and Linux: From: Robert Lauriston
Re: Bad Documentation and Linux: From: Pro TechWriter
Re: Bad Documentation and Linux: From: Gene Kim-Eng
Re: Bad Documentation and Linux: From: Edgar D' Souza

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