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Subject:Attention dead tree consumers From:Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 11 May 2006 11:05:51 -0400
For those of you who send manuals out to be printed or who print them
in-house...
On a publishing list the other day, a self-publishing author who had
typeset her own math text (using TeX) had gotten page proofs back from
the printer. She asked what she should be looking for.
In response, I offered a short checklist, off the top of my head.
Kristen King, another list member, then asked if she could post an
edited version of that checklist as a "guest article" on her blog. Well,
long story short, I polished it up a bit (although I'm sure it's still
incomplete), and it is now live at
http://inkthinker.blogspot.com/2006/05/guest-article-prove-it-yourself.html.
Comments on the article are welcome at either blog. A month from now,
when I republish the article on my own blog, I'll incorporate any
additions suggested in comments.
Apparently (I'm new to this blog stuff) the whole idea is to get others
to post links to your stuff, because that's what gets blogs noticed by
search engines. So please feel free, if you see anything of value on my
blog, to link to it, and let me know if I can return the favor. I have
already noticed several hits, on the Web sites I manage, coming from
links I posted on my blog. As those clicks are all free, which is not
the case for Google AdWords clicks, I already like blogging ;-) Now I've
just got to find the right balance so I don't spend too much time at it.
Thanks to Kristen for lighting a fire under me to get started on this.
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