Yes! Most people feel that writing for their websites is a mamoth, daunting task that they don't have the time for. Here is a great article from two newsletter experts I subscribe to which should get you in the right frame of mind.

Gihan writes "I was helping a client last week with her Web site. She runs a number of programs - workshops, seminars, training courses and consulting services - but she hadn't listed them yet on her Web site.
Rather than agonising over each program description for hours, we decided to write them fast. We set ourselves the goal of writing each Web page in just 15 minutes. At the end of that time, we would stop and move on to the next page.
At the end of three hours, we had most of the program descriptions written, as well as two brand-new articles for the Web site."

The OpenDocument juggernaut rolls on, with the announcement that the OpenDocument format is now an ISO/IEC standard.  The decision about which format to trust for storing your documents is now even easier.

In related news, the OpenDocument Foundation has announced that it has finished testing an ODF plugin for Microsoft Word.  So MS Word now joins the long list of applications that support OpenDocument, whether Microsoft wants it to or not.

In another of the increasingly frequent "no-brainer" migrations to the OpenDocument format, the National Archives is adopting OpenDocument for preserving electronic documents.  What distinguishes this migration from others is that in this instance, the organisation adopting OpenDocument is, by it's nature, not the author of most of the documents it works with.  

Unlike open standards like OpenDocument, proprietary document formats such as the many variants of the Microsoft™ Word format can only be read so long as the original software vendor remains in business and feels that it is in their interest to continue supporting the format in it's products. Many document formats in common use barely a decade ago are for this reason now virtually indecipherable.

The National Archives will still accept material in whatever format it is submitted, but is committed to the often difficult task of deciphering proprietary document formats in order to store documents in a format which will still be readable in a hundred years time.

Additional commentary here.

A South African system administrator went shopping recently and found that as the cost of computer hardware has dropped dramatically, the cost of proprietary software has risen even more dramatically.

"The fact that a vendor can pull a product right out from under you and replace it with a more expensive one is a strong argument in favor of the open source office suite, OpenOffice. My software dealer suggested it to me, even though he doesn't make money on the product. He's so unhappy with Microsoft's antics that he's taken to suggesting OpenOffice as an alternative. It's clearly time for a change."