Dr Karl Stolley
Assistant Professor of Technical Communication, Illinois Institute of Technology
Notes for March 2008
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Google Prettify’s claim that it won’t interfere with embedded tags in code examples appears incorrect; if the code example is only HTML, Prettify will remove any embedded tags (like a strong tag used to highlight a code change). Adding non-HTML code to the sample allows the tags to remain, but the expected rendering of HTML code elements disappears, too.
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Is a possible activity-theory based critique of WYSIWYG digital production that WYSIWYG takes what, at the code level, would be actions and moves them down, outside of a human agent, to the level of operations? And that making so many actions (e.g., bolding text) into operations shared across, say, a Web editor and a Word processor, clouds the entire idea of the activity of digital production?
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I enjoy my Kinesis keyboards, especially because they are such conversation pieces.
The Kinesis Advantage: An abstract view.
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New Media, Old(er) Media alert: why is there such a disconnect between the compelling election primary graphics on broadcast CNN, versus the paltry offerings on CNN.com?
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About Me
I’m an assistant professor of technical communication at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL. I completed my PhD in rhetoric and composition at Purdue University in 2007.
This fall, I am teaching graduate seminars in Information Structure and Retrieval, and Open Source in Technical Communication.
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