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A good friend and colleague of mine, Theresa Cameron, International Representitive for the UK ISTC, sent me this article, “iPad: Manual not Included”, from the Independent (UK) by Simon Usborne pondering the demise of the user manual. Usborne also interviews two other well known and repsected professionals in our field, whose opinons I repsect quite [...]
Just back from Ireland
Hello. I’m back from Ireland. It was good to get a break. While I was there, we were in a zone that had no Internet or mobile phone coverage. This made me think a lot about how much we now depend on technology to carry out our daily lives, and just how different life was [...]
BBC Gets into Writing Instruction Manuals
On Friday, 21 August, at 11:00 GMT, the BBC radio 4 will be broadcasting the program, “How to write an instruction manual” See this link for details. You should be able listen to it afterwards for 7 days through the BBC iPlayer on their web page. Have fun!
Is Your Blog On Topic?
There’s no doubting blogs are great, search engines love the fresh content delivered by them and they are readily devoured and pinged as new posts are added. This has a great search engine optimisation effect for many blogs with many, including mine enjoying strong rankings across search engines for key terms. It is for this [...]
Harvard Univeristy Press to Sell 1000 Books (for a song) on Scribd
As they write in their announcement: it’s a recession. Save the $200,000 you were going to spend on that Harvard education and check out some of the books Harvard University Press is selling on Scribd which began yesterday. There’s something for everyone: there’s learning theory, rain forest research, Chinese history… They’re not exactly free, but they’re a [...]
Malcolm Gladwell reviews “Free” by Chris Anderson
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and The Tipping Point, writes a review of Chris Anderson’s Free, available for free on Scribd, which I blogged on 07/07. His article is in the New Yorker and is titled Priced to Sell. This brings me to another article I thoroughly enjoyed, dated 27 July 2009 (hey! we haven’t even [...]