I have seen the eminent reinvention of technical documentation as we know it, which inspired me to begin chronicling my own observations and shifts in the field of communicating technical topics through conversation. One such revealing moment happened while I was working on documentation for the One Laptop Per Child project on their wiki at […]
Putting content into context in a wiki – especially in a large environment
An interesting read on the front page of wordpress.com of all places. I enjoy random clicking, and this one came up with a great commentary on the difficulty of using a wiki to get how to information. From Learning about Second Life from Google: Over at SL, the main source of information is on the […]
Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Attracting girls to IT
15% of people are from the northeast 15% of people left handed 15% of people in the world have no cell phone, or no Internet And… less than 15% of computer science majors are female. [1] This was the lead-in for the panelists and I liked the tie-ins of 15. Since this session, I have […]