Daniel Brent Patton

Product Content Strategy & UX Writing

Bye, Webmonkey. And thanks…

I have to take minor objection to Paul Boutin’s assertion that people didn’t like Wired’s “breathless cyber optimism.” I, for one, chose a career in technology thanks in part to positivist platitudes. Between Wired and Fast Company, I...

Treepad PIM

Treepad is a fantastic text editor with numerous additional features useful to writers and hackers and anyone else who needs to organize ascii. I use the freeware version (Treepad Lite). It’s a quick download, with a small footprint—you can run it off a floppy...

NEWSDESK RSS Reader

Get it and retrieve headlines and summaries from over 5,700 news sources in 25 languages. Related articles Were You a Google Reader Power User? Try Newsdesk. (moreover.com) Newsdesk Feature Spotlight: Companies and People in Newsletters (moreover.com) Guardian’s...