The offices of Stately STC Manor may be closed due to the impending Snowstorm of Dooom (the extra O stands for “Omigosh, we need milk and bread and TP!”), but Your Friendly Neighborhood Blogger is still on the job. At home, watching the pretty snow fall outside my full-length sunroom window, but still on the job! And so I present to you this week’s Links of Interest. As always, Your Interest May Vary.
STC’s Washington DC chapter has compiled a list of Captivate resources for those using it.
About Freelance Writing gives an example of “Why Corporations Need Real Writers.”
The Gilbane Group’s Globalization blog snagged an interview with the president of LinguaLinx, who talked about effective authoring for translations.
The Content Wrangler tries to reimagine the book-publishing world with XML.
Jeff Jeffrey Zeldman of Zeldman.com praises the lack of Flash in the new iPad as “a win for accessible, standards-based design,” then clarifies and expands upon his comments as well.
Open Source Business Resource discusses the importance of user assistance and “ensuring that everybody wins.”
Mashable presents “4 Essential Traits for Social Media Success in Your Career.”
And finally, Lifehacker provides “the lorem ipsum of images,” a dummy image generator for placeholders.