TECH BUZZ: Like Howard Beale in Network, many longtime Microsoft Word users are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. So they’re abandoning Word in droves, turning instead to Google Docs and other more elegant, intuitive, user-friendly apps such as Scrivener, WriteRoom, and Buzzword for all their word-processing needs.

The Best Links:

1. An Interface of One’s Own
2. Goodbye, Cruel Word
3. Microsoft Word Has Passed Away. Time of Death: 12:23 AM
4. In Search of a Distraction-Free Computer Desktop
5. Write Here, Write Now, Write Anywhere: 13 Free Web-Based Word Processors
6. Ditching MS Word for Text Editors
7. Word Processing for Mac
8. What’s the Word On Ditching Word?
9. WriteRoom: Distraction-Free Writing
10. Scrivener: Outline. Edit. Storyboard. Write.
11. Buzzword Preview