A non-SR way to conserve keystrokes

Jon Udell, a long-time technology writer who I remember from Byte days, tried speech recognition a few years ago after suffering from RSI.  He recovered, but the real lesson he learned from the experience was the importance of keystroke conservation: making sure each act of typing has as much return on investment (ROI) as possible.  His advice?  blog instead of email.  I find that happening all the time at work, when we send 1:1 email replies to people asking questions about our products.  Why do we respond with email when so many more people will benefit if you post to a blog?

I miss Robert Scoble (whose position Jon now fills, though in a different capacity).  Robert's transparency, both at Microsoft and now afterwards, gives him a huge ROI on his keystrokes.  It often feels like Robert never actually uses email because anything you want to know from him you can see on his blog. 

Published 10 April 07 09:11 by sprague

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# someone said on April 11, 2007 10:08 AM:

Have you taken a look here?: http://speech.even-zohar.com/

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