Ghosts of conversations held
The February 2007 issue of Intercom, the STC member magazine, featured a cover article called “Protecting Yourself from Offshoring: Advice for US-based Technical Communicators”. I had some issues with the article but kept them to myself until I read in the STC Member Forum that the Intercom editors were inviting letters to the editor and/or editorials from people about it. I wrote offering to write an editorial and then posted in the forum about the US-centricity of the article—I hadn’t planned on writing about that particular issue in my proposed editorial but still wanted to voice my opinion. The forum discussion went, well, all over the place and nowhere, at the same time. My offer of an editorial was not accepted as the editors had decided to post an excerpt from the forum discussion instead, but, after hearing that the US-centricity of the article wasn’t my main issue with it, the editors allowed me to write a “letter to the editor” that covered most of the points that would have been in the editorial.
So, loads of “Kitty mouthing off” in the June Intercom for your viewing pleasure. 