I’m starting to think about a conference presentation I have been asked to make later this year. Sometimes, our talks are about “big picture” issues, such as “what makes a good technical author?” or “what’s the value of documentation?”, and I’m currently considering whether I should talk about the future trends in technical communication. The… Read more »
Category: Technical Communication
Open source economics
In this video, Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. Is he right? Could the same economic rules be applied to the technical writing projects, where there is a large user base?
Follow the thoughts of technical communication experts
We’ve created a Web page that aggregates the messages from some of the leaders/pioneers in the technical communication sector. You can view the Web page here
How will the Semantic Web affect user documentation?
Tim Berners-Lee said, in 1999: I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of… Read more »
Twitter revisited
Here is graph comparing the use of words in Twitter that are commonly associated with the field of technical communication.