Re: Somewhat OT: Tech Writers vs. other writers

[SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com]

Writing about the STC Annual Conference, someone said, with typical hyperbole:

"I counted one or two technical presentations among hundreds of "career 
development" and "earn the respect you deserve" type seminars."

You must have stopped counting before you got to the Tools and Technology 
stem. Neil Perlin (a newly elected Associate Fellow, and well deserving!) did 
more than one or two technical topics himself (on XML and on "bleeding-edge" 
technologies). I attended more than one or two XML sessions that were over my head 
(one of Neil's and one by a guy who's implementing it at IBM). I also 
attended a Dreamweaver MX demo that I would consider a technical presentation. So 
that's three I attended personally, and two more I know of.

Were all the sessions technical? No. Were there more than a few? Yes, there 
were more than I could attend.

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