I’ve been re-reading Jakob Nielson’s Participation Inequality essay on useit.com, and the suggestion to some how show wear marks on content struck me this evening for some reason. I guess it’s because I’ve been working on Drupal recently, and discovered that Drupal documentation contains site recipies in the Drupal Handbook. What a nifty idea. Stick […]
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 – Darren Barefoot – Social Media 101: Now Everyone’s a Technical Writer
Here are my notes from Darren Barefoot’s talk, a self-described recovering technical writer. He leads with what defines social media? Create your own definition around these concepts: Conversation – comments on large media sites allow ayone to speak to the media person keeping on the pedestal Collaboration – 7 million people collaborating on wikipedia, likely […]