Tag Archives: techwriting

bookmarks for July 26th, 2013 through July 27th, 2013

Flying Logic : Software for Visual Planning Support : About – Hmm. Marketing speak, pseudo-method, or something substantive here. That I have to ask the question suggests the former. – (fyc erhetoric rhetoric )
Digitally Savvy Students Play Hide-and-Seek With Campus Messages – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Plight of the campus communicators when students don't want to listen, I guess. The problem is not using email but HOW they use email. – (erhetoric techwriting )

Delagrange::Technologies of Wonder – fair OV. – (DigitalHumanities erhetoric )
Prof. Jones’s wiki / Class Notes Assignment – Class notes are epistemologically weird. On the one hand, they feel quite private, but, on the other, if your understanding of what went on in class is too idiosyncratic, then you’re likely to do poorly on exams. (Also, to whatever extent a class is a shared intellectual enterprise, there should be at least *some* common understanding of what has gone on during our time together.) It can be hard to improve one’s notetaking skills, because it’s traditionally such an individual practice. Enter the wiki. – (wiki teaching fyw via:ccarey )
[toread] classifying participation in online discussions – – (erhetoric )
The Nature of Scholarship : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic – method just below the surface. – (research2.0 ple )
How to Write an Email That Will Get a Response | The Art of Manliness – Not bad for generic advice. More about AoM than email, but, hey. – (techwriting netiquette email )

Why The Daily Is So Yesterday – from tidBITS, good commentary on the yesterDaily. "The Daily has been compared to USA Today, which made a splash when it debuted in 1982 with its challenges to the traditional newspaper model." but it's lamer than USA Today because we now read from multiple sources. – (journalism thedeathly murdoch DOA )
Less Text, Please: Contemporary Reading Behaviors and Short Formats | I’d Rather Be Writing – Mid-length consideration from a tech writer on short form text reading. Reviews some of the more recent arguments, and tries to set a lower limit on brevity. with "The same people who clipped back my copious callouts into a few marketing bubbles would have also pruned this post from 2,000 words to 200. Would that make the text more valuable? Just as there’s a balance between simplicity and obscurity, there’s a balance between length and learning. More people might read a short text, but a longer text yields more learning. Is there no pleasure in learning anymore?" Tends to skip over the Clive Thompson notion that he mentions: "The torrent of short-form thinking is actually a catalyst for more long-form meditation." – (techwriting reading shortform brevity )

chofmann’s weblog: FLOSS Manuals: Changing the Publishing World One Book at a Time. – The FLOSS Manuals Project wants to change all by bringing open source concepts to publishing. They are engaged in building a platform and community designed to get interesting books published and do it on faster cycles. I recently had a chance to participate in a FLOSS Manual Book Sprint as they worked on a Firefox Manual – (booksprints publishing2.0 publishing )
chofmann’s weblog: FLOSS Manuals: Changing the Publishing World One Book at a Time. – The FLOSS Manuals Project wants to change all by bringing open source concepts to publishing. They are engaged in building a platform and community designed to get interesting books published and do it on faster cycles. I recently had a chance to participate in a FLOSS Manual Book Sprint as they worked on a Firefox Manual – (booksprints publishing2.0 publishing )
BookSprints (en) – FLOSSManuals guide to planning and running a booksprint;. – (booksprints techwriting freelancing weblogs en3177 writing book collaboration documentation socialpractices )

Palin’s Resignation: The Edited Version | vanityfair.com – A little shaky in its premise because VF seems to be editing spoken delivery into written delivery. – (writing copywriting editing techwriting )
ACU’s iPhone initiative: a year later – An outside view of ACU's distro of iphones to students and teachers based on interviews with the players. "The success of such programs depends both on the ubiquity and availability of the devices, as well as acceptance by the staff and students. The purely voluntary method of distribution and the freedom to use the device as a social and entertainment tool offered as part of the package both went a long way toward furthering the latter." – (iPhone education mobilelearning research )