Links of Interest, 12 March: Writing Quickly, Friendliness, Documentation, Copy Editing, and More

Scott Nesbitt presents the Four Keys to Writing Quickly in his Words on a page blog.

Gryphon Mountain Journals talks about how to present a better face and become “the friendly neighborhood tech writer.” 

Spiegel Online International writes about an airplane near-crash in Hamburg, Germany. Of particular interest to TC’ers is a focus on inadequate documentation and its ramifications.

Media Bistro discusses a Columbia Journalism Review study that shows copying editing and fact checking are lacking in many magazines.

That leads us to this editorial cartoon, showing how the copy editors those magazines aren’t using might now be spending their days.

And finally, Sunday is Pi Day! Yes, March 14 is 3.14 in U.S.-style citation, matching up with the basic abbreviation of the mathematical pi. So take some time to appreciate the mathematics of circles, see how many digits of pi you can memorize, or have yourself a tasty piece of pi. And try not to overuse the old joke, “Πr2? No, pie are round!”