Still, I know that I’ve clicked “publish” for things that would have benefitted from editing — or even from a four-hour incubation period. Perhaps not a best practice, but a candidate for a better one.

Editing blog posts? Tell me if you can recognise when a blog post has been edited. I can usually recognise blog posts that haven’t been.

I know which of the two I prefer to scan (alleged edited posts that go undetected as such, or those that need editing).

I’ve recently come across posts (not so bothered about comments) that deperately need editing. Running the spelchekcer would go a long way with this. Getting the in words the right order too helps.

Ka kite

Twelve or fifteen people, at least three of them engineers, slogging page by page through a “document review.” A project manager who sees this as an efficient way to cover overall content, expert feedback, editing, and typo-catching “so as to make the best use of everyone’s time.”

This is the airport ticketing approach to instructional design.