I’ve been a long-time reader of Digg.com, but just last week it dawned on me that it would be really great if there were a Digg-like site for technical communication. So I decided to create one. It’s called WriterRiver.com and it’s pretty much a Digg clone, except that the entire focus is on articles related to technical communicators.

Great idea, Tom, and thanks! Everyone head on over to WriterRiver, register a witty username, & start participating.

Hmmm… now, the question remains: how do we verb-ificate WriterRiver? With Digg.com, we have “digg me,” or “I dug the site.” So, with WR… do we “WR me,” or perhaps “send me down the river? (up the river?)” Any ideas?

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But you can always get your monkey fix by following me on Twitter. You are twittering, aren’t you? What kind of web two-dot-oh person are you if you’re not microblogging? Why, it might even keep you out of a middle east prison someday.

Matthew Ellison has published a comprehensive review of the most popular screen capture tools.

Finally, the Buttonmasher sent in another puzzling infographic for us to consider:

So… I guess it’s okay for me to park my giraffe inside this garage, then?

– Ety. – Dual. ‘Blog’, Sl., from Interwebianus Mamas Basementia, meaning ‘record of one desperate in some way for attention’; ‘Polar’, adj., from Realitus, meaning ‘having two opposing extremes’.

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Content will be restarting in earnest. Stay tuned.

It all started with the Jetman wondering why RoboHelp wasn’t included in Adobe’s SEC and investor relations documents, and went from there.

CJ has repeatedly asked for a statement from Adobe or their product evangelists, but so far, only silence. I’ll put the call out as well… if anyone has more information or documentation regarding the business side of RH, head on over to CharlesJeter.com and chime in.

And while you’re there, make sure you grab his feed. His site has become another favorite of mine, you’ll see I’ve added it to the sidebar. His topics are very diverse, ranging from tech comm to parenting to gaming. Check it out.

Yes, I am alive.

Regular content will resume shortly. Make sure you’re subscribed to the monkeyPi feed.

In the meantime, enjoy a few minutes watching this pinnacle of interweb awesomeness:

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H/Ts: Tom Johnson @ IRBW & Helpstuff.

H/T: Palimpsest.

• Alan Boyle over at the Cosmic Log has written a fascinating article about the newly released Spitzer telescope images of M42, (the Orion Nebula).
• Speaking of Orion, the folks at collectSpace have another scoop – what may be the new Project Orion logo and patch (Project Orion is our generation’s Project Apollo).
• Andy over at Tech Write Tips has put together an awesome series on getting high definition PDFs out of Flare (link goes to Part 1).
• Drew over at End of the Bench has moved to Wordpress (welcome to the club, Drew!).
• The preseason BlogPoll is out, and OSU is #1 with 20 votes. One of those votes came from us over at MotSaG, of course.

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All thanks and respect to the largess of my blogfather, the Buttonmasher, who has graciously helped me establish this site. What can I say? He made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. The man’s virtually “adopted” enough bloggers to make Angelina Jolie jealous.

So, thanks much to the b-masher. With E3 going on, now’s a great time to pay his site a visit.

As far as monkeyPi goes, feel free to bookmark my page (or grab my RSS feed). My goal is to have a creative outlet, but I hope most of what I post here will amuse you.

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