An interesting comparison and contrast with two recently added time-sink temptations while online. As of a few weeks ago, you can submit news stories to the new WriterRiver.com, a digg clone site with the clever Sink or Float capability on news stories, built by Tom Johnson who writes the IdRatherBeWriting blog. A few months ago, […]
STC2008 – Wrap up STC Summit trip report
I had a great time in Philly for the STC Summit, and here are some of my takeaways. Collaboration is a huge part of our jobs, whether it’s finding others in your company to collaborate with as the two technical writers from Sun have done while creating screencasts with a “rock start developer” or the […]
STC2008 – Mining Web 2.0 Content for Enterprise Gold
Most definitions of Web 2. 0 are illustrative, but Michael Priestly prefers text. He’ll pick 2 core Web 2.0 concepts for today’s talk – wikis and mashups to discuss, but there’s also blogs, tagging, social networking that could also be mined. Wiki’s problems Content is unstructured, you don’t know if it contains the elements of, […]