Help Choose the Best Tech Writing of 2007

handle writes "You can help choose 'The Best of Technology Writing 2007' for an upcoming anthology to be published by The University of Michigan Press and University of Michigan Library. Visit us to nominate your favorite articles, essays and blog posts. The 2006 edition has been published, and you can read it online free (as in beer)."

Continuing its stunning streak

[antifoidulus]

Slashdot finishes dead last again!

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[Awod]

You've just won the interwebs, congrats.

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[TERdON]

You accidentally misspellt second to last [ecma-international.org] in your post...

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[mdsolar]

Slashdot didn't place, on the other hand, slashdot links to tech writing rather than reporting on technology itself, most of the time.
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Real technical writing? No.

[Anonymous Coward]

It appears that by technical writing they mean non-technical writing about technical items (as is shown by last year's entries). Since this isn't really technical writing (and who would want to read that in their free time who was not a geek) it should belong in the Best of Non-Fiction Writing for 2006.

But if they ever actually mean technical writing then I have a great entry: NIST-NCSTAR 1 [nist.gov]. Lots of detail, lots of analysis, and even a couple of introductory chapters than only assume a BS in engineering (

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[danlock4]

It appears that by technical writing they mean non-technical writing about technical items

I was confused by the headline as well, thinking that "Tech Writing" was Technical Writing, when in fact it is referring to Technology Writing.

Lowest-karma slashdot account?

[gentimjs]

I say we submit the lowest-karma-rated slashdot account as the best tech writer ..... :-)

Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

[NZheretic]

If you are concerned about DRM, please vote for Peter Gutmann's A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection [auckland.ac.nz].

My nomination

[dangitman]

John C. Dvorak.

His writing is insightful, witty, technically brilliant and not at all biased. His expert analysis and predictions always hold true. And he's not a filthy publicity-seeking whore like other writers.

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[MLease]

John? Is that you?

-Mike

My vote

[StikyPad]

I nominate the author of the Agilent E2930B DDR Exerciser and Protocol Analyzer for PCI-X 1.0 and 2.0 manual. That part on unidirectional data path verification and real-time data comparison was simply... breathtaking. I felt like I was really there.