Not bad for generic advice. More about AoM than email, but, hey.

the resume of the future - pretty much a well-monitored profile.

Nice tutorial example for tech writing.

Mid-length consideration from a tech writer on short form text reading. Reviews some of the more recent arguments, and tries to set a lower limit on brevity. with "The same people who clipped back my copious callouts into a few marketing bubbles would have also pruned this post from 2,000 words to 200. Would that make the text more valuable? Just as there’s a balance between simplicity and obscurity, there’s a balance between length and learning. More people might read a short text, but a longer text yields more learning. Is there no pleasure in learning anymore?" Tends to skip over the Clive Thompson notion that he mentions: "The torrent of short-form thinking is actually a catalyst for more long-form meditation."

Superb primer on designing text for devices - with links. Read it

For Tech Writing.

FLOSSManuals guide to planning and running a booksprint;.

A little shaky in its premise because VF seems to be editing spoken delivery into written delivery.

Brief teacherly article on creating and using a wikipedia-like set up in fyc.

A primer for marketing on Wikipedia: "Wikipedia is not the source of easy promotion and marketing that many novices believe it to be. It takes practice to avoid being reverted." Still, the advice is pretty good.

Javascripts that check text on web or file.

as adapted from A White - and just about every visual design text published

Promotional blog by Garr Reynolds on tradiional and contemporary professional presentations. Eschews the terms but is steeped in Socratic rhetoric turned towards the digital.

Brief account of how to maintain a wiki as it grows: bonzai snips. Reminds me that I have to trim the Weblogs and Wikis wiki.

The Orange Journal of Technical Communication and Information Design is a graduate student journal that strives to foster critical thinking and discussion on a wide variety of topics and issues important to technical communicators.

What hits and what misses is going to depend on the rhetorical situation, but here's a short heuristic for getting started on making good chocies.

Witty intro for newbies and witty reminder for the cynical.