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I found the Tech Writer Blog directory from a post by Katriel Reichman who recently wrote me an email message in response to my post about Wikis for technical documentation - one writer’s story. Katriel has a nice post about rules for when a wiki would work well for tech docs. I’m looking forward to more posts with his insight on wikis and tech pubs.

He also wrote a post about the Tech Writer blog directory and the only rule about the blog directory is that no one talks about the blog directory. Wait, no, that’s not it. The rule is, if you add your blog to the directory, you mention the blog directory in your blog. Since it’s a wiki page you can edit the page to add your blog’s URL and feed.

I’m pretty excited about it also because it was my first chance to use my newly registered domain name, www.justwriteclick.com, which redirects to my blog here at talk.bmc.com/blogs/anne-gentle.

And the greatest feature of the Tech Writer blog directory (in addition to the fact that it’s a wiki page) is that they’re making an OPML file of the list as well as a Yahoo pipes feed. Neat!