Tom Johnson of IWBW has created a social news service for Technical Communicators.
I’ve been a long-time reader of Digg.com, but just last week it dawned on me that it would be really great if there were a Digg-like site for technical communication. So I decided to create one. It’s called WriterRiver.com and it’s pretty much [...]
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A Digg for Technical Communicators
Published June 10th, 2008 in Blogging and Visual/Technical Communication. 1 CommentTech writer launches class action lawsuit against Sun Microsystems
Published May 15th, 2008 in Visual/Technical Communication. 10 CommentsA former technical writer for Sun Microsystems has filed a class action lawsuit against Sun, claiming that writers are unfairly assigned exempt status.
Dani Hoenemier says she worked long days as a technical writer for Sun Microsystems, sometimes spending over 60 hours a week at her computer when the company was preparing a new product release.
Sun’s [...]
If Monty Python designed logos
Published April 24th, 2008 in Observations and Visual/Technical Communication. 0 Comments“Yessir, the new logo for Her Majesty’s Office of Government Commerce is nearly complete, eh? Certainly fetching, if I do say so meself. Mmm-hm.”
“A quite fine job, Baskins. Your mum should be quite proud, you’ve - ‘allo ‘allo ‘allo… what’s this?!? What’s this all about? Baskins, did you take at look at this, you know, [...]
theIcons
Published April 23rd, 2008 in Humor, Visual/Technical Communication and theIcons. 4 Comments“How hard is it to break with our clicking habits? What happens if we remove the essential element of navigation from an interface which we are accustomed to? Does it change our behaviour of navigation? Is this change for good or for bad? What do we gain from it? Do we miss The Click at [...]
Message Web Design has created a unique way to survey users’ online text preferences.
We have created an easy-to-use web application which allows users to adjust an on-screen display until they find the text to be easiest to read. They can adjust the font, size, line height and column width - the major contributing factors in [...]
Baseball pitch infographics
Published November 15th, 2007 in Sports and Visual/Technical Communication. 0 CommentsLokesh Dhakar has illustrated a series of diagrams showing the trajectories of variously-pitched baseballs.
The illustrations are simple and clean, and yet still communicate a large amount of information - movement in three dimensions, ball orientation at pitch point, and speed. (Note the color gradients from yellow to red to indicate different speeds.)
Check it out.
