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I'd do it myself if I weren't swamped for the next few months, but I'd love to read an article interviewing the authors of humorous documentation such as the Helix watch doc.
I think it would be very interesting to hear they came to actually doing it--what they were trying to accomplish, what kind of audience analysis they did (Timex must have resources for this, right?), what hoops they had to jump to get approval. How did they deal with any concerns about "inappropriate" humor--or did they not worry about it? What was their background? etc.
Any humor-endowed unemployed tech writers out there looking for something to play with?
Sella Rush
Tech Writer III
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srush -at- musicnet -dot- com
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