List of the questions I asked of our panelists about best practices in technical publications Here are the questions I asked of our panelists at our October STC meeting in Austin that further investigated and challenged the best practices listed in the “Tech writers as sales reps?” article on which we focused. Over the next […]
A proliferation of XML languages
Thought-provoking post about how many languages have sprung from XML From a post to his “ongoing” weblog by Tim Bray: Here’s a radical idea: don’t even think of making your own language until you’re sure that you can’t do the job using one of the Big Five: XHTML, DocBook, ODF, UBL, and Atom. With details […]
Attending SXSW in March 2006
Finally completed my registration for SXSW Interactive 2006 South By SouthWest (SXSW) Interactive is the web, blog, RSS, and other three letter acronym part of the SXSW conference and festival here in Austin. I finally paid the $250 registration fee (today’s the last day for that, it goes up another $50 to the walk-in registration […]