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Subject:RE: Death knell for quality content? From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:22:19 -0400
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> From: john
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:20 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Death knell for quality content?
>
> ... Is this really what we are going to start
> getting? Content is king ... but if people
> really believe that crappy content is just
> as good as quality content, we are in a heap
> of trouble.
>
We are in no such heap. Bad writing might be fine for Helium's specific
business model. That doesn't mean that bad writing is accepted by every
market and every audience. There will always be customers who care about
well-written technical documentation, and there will never be enough
technical writers to supply them all.
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