Desperately Seeking Documentation?

Interrobang asks: "I'm a longtime Slashdot reader, who isn't a programmer. I'm one of programmers' symbiotic (parasitic?) life-forms -- a freelance technical writer. I'd like to know from the programmers, IT managers, and similar others in the crowd: If you were searching the Internet for a technical writer, what kinds of search terms would you use? What sites would you check? Where and how would you start looking?"

First mistake

[Anonymous Coward]

Using your precious /. link to optimize for an obscure punctuation mark [wikipedia.org] instead of "Technical writer". :)

craigslist

[Anonymous Coward]

we recently hired a tech writer who answered our listing on craigslist. bigger companies would have an HR dept take care of this, but we're small and wanted somebody quickly/cheaply. turned out she was somewhat well-qualified so we took a chance on her, and it's worked out pretty well so far.