Many operating systems have wonderful text-to-speech features included by default—ironically enough, this entire article revolves around this feature. Long forgotten and unused, it is now an important part of my work flow. I only began exploring this feature around a month and a half ago on my Mac OS X Leopard system, and I have been using it ever since. It has saved me from having many errors that I would not have noticed otherwise. It is exactly like having someone else read your work for you, but the only difference is that it is now a computer doing it for you.

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While listening to episode 124 of the Cranky Geeks Podcast with John C. Dvorak, the topic of editing a post after it's been published came up. John seems to think that if you correct the information within the post, that it is ok not to let anyone know with the exception of telling the commenter who notified him of the error that it had been fixed. If one were to do their research, he believes that the reader would see the note in the comment and notice that at one time, the post had contained misinformation.

Creating and editing documents has, understandably, been a fairly lonely task for bloggers. Fortunately, SubEthaEdit by The Coding Monkeys changes all that by giving users the power to collaborate instantaneously. Multiple people can create and edit content in real-time, and beyond being fun, it is extremely useful as well.

Recently, Macworld posted a video explaining the tools they use in their workflow, and the first tool they mentioned was SubEthaEdit. It came to my suprise to learn what was possible with SubEthaEdit—I already had the application installed, but I was unaware of the potential until after watching the video.

Only one thought came to mind—that's freaking awesome!

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Hello everyone!!!!! I am working for a great company that hosts and owns travel-related websites. I need help finding individuals who would be in charge of editing and managing content on our travel-related websites. Can anyone give me advice on where to find editors/writers/bloggers who would be willing to do this? Many Thanks in advance!!!

The actual writing of a blog post is not the most time consuming process for many. Actually, it is the editing which takes up the most time. In my case, I can write a thousand words in a matter of minutes, but it is the editing which will take up the most time. Fortunately, with experience, I have developed a few methods for my writing process to minimize the amount of editing I do. It still takes awhile, but it is nowhere near as long as it once took to accomplish.

These tips will help those that feel they take too long editing their content. All of these tips are from personal experience, and they might or might not work for you. However, I would recommend that everyone gives these tips a chance to see if they help make you more productive.

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A few days ago, I posed the question Are Bloggers and Blogs Ruining the English Language? In hindsight, only an hour after posting, I realized that I missed an opportunity and made a mistake with that article. It should have been formatted/ massaged into being part of my current series, Joining a Niche Conversation. The question is, should I have edited it and changed the title after I had already posted it live?

The article generated a fair bit of response, but it might have provided more value to the series than on its own. For example, had it been titled "Joining a Niche Conversation, Part 3: Avoiding Communication Breakdown," it might have contributed to the series' synergy. In the latter form, it would have to be tighter and maybe contain a summary and a bullet list.

It was an oversight on my part. I'd already produced a loose outline for the series, but had not included rules of grammar as a topic. Of course, that doesn't mean I can't go back and edit the article. This question has come up amongst members of The Hive, Performancing's new authority forum: should you edit archived blog articles?

Here are a few considerations:

1. Website content gets edited. Why not blog content?
2. What impact will changing blog content have?
3. Is it worth the effort of editing archived posts? What value
4. Is it okay to change the title?
5. Should you change the URL?

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