Podcast mashup for technical writers
A combination of some podcast feeds that may be of interest to technical writers like myself (Alistair Christie - www.itauthor.com). The feed was created using Yahoo Pipes. It mashes together the 15 most recent posts from the following feeds: Tech Writer Voices (http://feeds.feedburner.com/techwritervoices), Grammar Girl (http://www.qdnow.com/grammar.xml), A Way With Words (http://feeds.waywordradio.org/awwwpodcast) The ITauthor Podcast (http://feeds.feedburner.com/itauthor).
Episodes
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Burn Bag - 28 September 2015
This week on "A Way with Words": Slang from the 19th century. The slang coming out of Victorian mouths was more colorful than you might think. A 1909 collection of contemporary slang records clever terms for everything from a bald head to the act of sidling through a crowd. Plus, how to remember...
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Lord Love a Duck (Rebroadcast) - 21 September 2015
This week on "A Way with Words": Someone should write a love letter to a new book called "Letters of Note." It's a splendid collection of all kinds of correspondence through the ages: Elvis Presley fans writing to the president, children making suggestions to famous cartoonists, a scientist's...
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Pumpkin Floater (Rebroadcast) - 14 September 2015
This week on "A Way with Words": Your telephone is for talking, right? Or is it? We're guessing it's been a while since you sat next to a telephone waiting for it to ring. In fact, maybe you're one of those people who HATE to see that voicemail message light blinking. But for many of us, waiting...
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Upstairs Basement (Rebroadcast) - 7 September 2015
This week on "A Way with Words": Giving your baby an unusual moniker may seem like a great idea at the time. But what if you have second thoughts? One mother of a newborn had such bad namer's remorse, she poured out her heart to strangers online. Speaking of mothers and daughters: Laura Ingalls...
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Hang a Salami (Rebroadcast) - 31 August 2015
This week on "A Way with Words": What's so special about the phrase Sit on a pan, Otis!? It's an example of a palindrome -- a word or phrase that's spelled the same backwards as it is forwards. This year's contest known as the Oscars of the palindrome world inspires some clever, even poetic,...
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Hard Words Are Hard (Rebroadcast) - 24 August 2015
This week on "A Way with Words": The SAT is changing things up, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Just because words like membranous are no longer in the verbal section doesn't mean kids aren't learning important vocabulary. And speaking of useful terms, shouldn't we have an English word…
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Brown as a Berry (Rebroadcast) - 17 August 2015
It used to be that you called any mixed-breed dog a mutt. But at today's dog parks, you're just as likely to run into schnugs, bassadors, and dalmadoodles. Also, if someone has a suntan, you might say he's brown as a berry. But then, when's the last time you saw a berry that was brown? The story...
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Keep Your Pants On (Rebroadcast) - 10 August 2015
This week on "A Way with Words": If everyone on the planet spoke a single language, wouldn't that make life a whole lot easier? For that matter, is a common world language even possible? Maybe for a minute or so--until new words and phrases start springing up. Also, did you ever wonder why the…
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About this show
A combination of some podcast feeds that may be of interest to technical writers like myself (Alistair Christie - www.itauthor.com). The feed was created using Yahoo Pipes. It mashes together the 15 most recent posts from the following feeds: Tech Writer Voices (http://feeds.feedburner.com/techwritervoices), Grammar Girl (http://www.qdnow.com/grammar.xml), A Way With Words (http://feeds.waywordradio.org/awwwpodcast) The ITauthor Podcast (http://feeds.feedburner.com/itauthor).