I just completed a three mile run with the voice of Joan Benoit Samuelson in my ear through the techonlogy offered by iTunes and iPod and Nike’s iTunes store. Joan Benoit Samuelson is a famous US female marathon runner, and winner of the first women’s Olympic marathon. She is most certainly a subject matter expert […]
The state of free documentation
That’s free as in freedom, and today’s post includes a link to Adam Hyde’s blog entry of the same title on FLOSS Manuals and some response based on my experiences so far. What motivates people to contribute to documentation projects for free? Is the documentation actually free as in no-cost? I’ll speak from my own […]
DocTrain West 2008 – How was the unconference?
In a word – energizing! I had completed my two shared talks – the Wiki roundtripping talk at 2 in the afternoon, with the next talk being at 3:30 when I moderated the Meet the bloggers panel. I had been on my feet for nearly all of both talks, and I was tiring mentally as […]