Hyperviews Online

An overview of XHTML for mobile devices is available: http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/design/xhtmlinfo/ The site has a variety of other resources on mobile devices also,

Nokia is working on augmented reality, the subject of an earlier post on “digital grafitti.” Nokia is demonstrating a system that allows a phone to sense its location and the orientation of its camera, and then pull information about the visible objects from a database: http://www.technologyreview.com/BizTech/17807/

The Canada West Coast chapter of STC has launched a new site on the Expression Engine publishing system.  http://www.stcwestcoast.ca

Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association. 2007 LITA National Forum: Technology with Altitude: 10 Years of the LITA National Forum. Denver, Colorado, USA. October 4-7, 2007.

Presentations will have a technological focus and pertain to libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. The scope of the conference call for papers included:

1. Social Computing: social tools, collaborative software, gaming technologies…

2. New Media: wireless connectivity, iPods, handhelds… (more…)

Thanks to Online SIG member Eileen Potter for these links.

You can set up an audio blog, a talk show online, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ The “Writing” category has ]interviews with a “top, new poet” in Texas as voted by the Dallas Literary Society and a place where people can call in and share their writing with an audience.

Digital grafitti characterizes messages left “in mid-air,” tied to GPS coordinates for a given location and seen only when looking at that location through a special device. Look through it and see messages from other people, internet addresses, drawings, any messages entered on the device at that location, floating all around you). How will that change technical writing and copy writing? Eileen suggests we imagine creating content for a travel guide with this technology.
http://unrated.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/digital-graffiti-leave-messages-in-mid-air/

by Bill Thomas, Senior Member, Rocky Mountain Chapter, November, 2006

Since I first joined STC in 1974, there have been discussions of whether Technical Communication is a profession and whether certification for technical communicators would be a good idea. There have been roundtables, articles, recommendations, and hallway discussions in companies, chapter meetings, and presentations at STC conferences.

 With the STC re-vitalization and transformation initiative, there has been renewed interest in certification and a new task force has been formed to look into answers. (more…)

http://www.horton.com/html/elexampleslist.aspx?ExampleID=13

http://www.elearningguild.com (journal articles, members only)

http://www.alleni.com (case studies and demos; register for the demos)

If you need to format XML code for easy reading or for printing, you can download a style sheet to do that. The article has full details of how the style sheet was developed. The style sheet is at the end.

WritersUA has published its 2006 Skills and Technologies Survey results.

A report appeared today on Search Engine Watch that is especially useful because it distinguishes among various types of disabilities and the assoicated requirements for accessibility.

By the STC Online SIG. Originally published February 2006. Revised September 2006.

Based on input from Destry Wion, member, Online SIG web team

There are many open source systems that provide functionality that a dynamic site for an STC SIG might need. To select a system, match the objectives and requirements for the dynamic SIG site to each candidate open source system, and choose a system that supports the maximum number of site objectives and requirements without customization.

The major activities in selecting an open source system are described here. (more…)

The site http://www.htmlgoodies.com/, maintained by Joe Burns, provides resources and links to additional ones including a forum on web design.

Find information on many aspects of email and email clients at http://mailformat.dan.info/ Topics include Headers, Body, Trailers, Quoting, Attachments, and Configuration of clients.

Edukalibre is a project funded by the European Commission under the Socrates/Minerva program, to promote information and communications technology in education.

The main goal is to explore new ways of producing educational materials, based on the practices and procedures observed in libre (free, open source) software development.

Find more information and try the system at http://edukalibre.org/. The formats are Latex and DocBook. There is integration with the learning management system Moodle. Conversion to HTML and PDF is reported to be available.

by Marcia Poulsen, member, Central New York chapter and Online SIG

The feedback I’ve received on my presentation, originally posted on this site Aug. 5, has inspired me to revise it. The updated version is entitled “The Three Core Topic Types: Concept, Task, Reference” (PPS, 3 MB).

Thanks to all who contributed thoughts.