Another incredibly useful site of the day

The excellent Dubber at New Music Strategies will doubtlessly approve of my hijacking his strapline for this one...

The Crocodile Dundee mugging incident comes to mind: "That's not a knife... THIS is a knife..."

As in "Google Docs isn't word processing... THIS is word processing"

And THIS is Buzzword

Tim O'Reilly (Tim O"Reilly? Yes, THAT Tim O'Reilly) calls it "the first real web-based word processor". Good enough for me.

It's so utterly intuitive and feature-rich, even in Preview 4 (which they've generously allowed me to test drive).*

Menus slide open when you need them, comment call-outs work like they're meant to and document management is a dream

Sort alphabetically, by author, role, creation date, review date or size. And see a document summary without having to burrow through drop-down options.

And the huge benefit is its easy management of document collaboration.

If we'd had this when I was working on proposals - contributions streaming in from all over the globe at all times of day and night (mostly night...) - I'd have more hair.

And what's left wouldn't be grey.

Can I foresee a life without Word?
Almost.

Will I still need offline word processing ability?
Probably.

How much of my text stuff will I do with Buzzword?
About 95%.

'nuff said.

*They wanted a good reason why I should permitted to tread their - virtual - hallowed halls.
I gave them the usual YMBFA drivel, and it worked..

Orphaned at an early age, grandparents - childless, unfortunately - went down with the Titanic.
Promised to tell others in my geriatrics water polo group, all of whom appear to be early adopters of cutting-edge technology. All have laptop cradles on our Zimmer-frames

Worked!