DP, PG, and More

I thought I'd throw this out there: Distributed Proofreaders.

Intimately tied to Project Gutenberg (which has saved me a fortune in textbooks for English classes over the years), Distributed Proofreaders is an organization dedicated to quickly moving public domain books through the post-OCR editing phase and into proper e-book format by utilizing a distributed cloud of volunteer proofreaders. Many hands make light work: a crowd of editors descends on a project and each one edits a few pages at a time. If you have a good eye for detail and occasionally like to do a bit of public service without leaving your chair, this is a fun way to do it. I guarantee that once you get the hang of it, it's addictive.

Also, if anyone is interested in technical writing (I'm an English major, it's technical writing or living in a box, I think!), I found this nifty link that talks a bit about it. It gives an overview of strategies and, most interestingly, some of the differences that emerge in the composing processes of inexperienced vs. experienced technical writers. I admit I've only had time to skim it thus far.