(NASA) - Looking for a fun way to keep up with all the cool science and engineering breakthroughs that are taking place at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center? Now available for free from the iTunes store is the official NASA Goddard Shorts podcast series.
By going on iTunes and subscribing to the new podcast, you will gain an “all access” pass to the center, with short videos about the fascinating work being carried out by some of the most talented individuals that NASA employs.
Goddard Space Flight Center, located in Greenbelt, Md., is home to the Nation’s largest organization of scientists and engineers working to expand our knowledge of the Earth, solar system and the Universe. Goddard has dedicated its mission to discover and learn more about space and Earth sciences so that we may obtain a better understanding of our planet and the mysteries of the universe. With so many exciting projects going on at the center, this new podcast series gives us a chance to show the world what we’re up to.
The world’s worst cooking video shows you how to make a meal that will make everyone you know horribly, horribly sick. It’s also an incredible piece of stop-motion art. Made by PES
MadCap Software is pleased to announce that WDC Chapter member, Eddie VanArsdall, MadCap Software Certified Instructor, will be personally conducting their comprehensive 3-day Training Seminar on MadCap Flare. Mr. VanArsdall has over sixteen years of experience as a technical writer, editor, instructional designer, trainer, and document production specialist. In addition to designing information solutions for government agencies, law firms, the World Bank, and clients in the telecommunications and health insurance industries, he also served as the WDC STC Chapter president. He is truly an industry expert and a great resource to have for 3 days!
Our 3-day class is a great way to quickly learn all of the powerful features of Flare, and take your documentation to the next level!
Parking will be free - Each participant will receive a visitor parking code beforehand
Towson is affiliated with the Burkshire Mariott Hotel at the edge of campus, which is a short walk from the building where the training will take place: http://tinyurl.com/5228s7
Technical Summit tweets are aggregated at Twemes.
About Twemes:
Twemes.com follows public Twitter.com tweets (messages) that have embedded tags that start with a # character. These are sometimes called hashtags but we like to use the term “twemes”.
Through the use of twemes, we can all view what people are talking about across the whole Twitter universe. In some sense, this can be thought of as an adhoc chatroom. We also pull in recent public photos from Flickr and public bookmarks from Del.icio.us.
Twemes.com is particularly useful for keeping up on the real-time activities associated with a live event such as a conference. People who attend an event can choose an obvious tag (i.e., sxsw for South by Southwest) and use this tag as #sxsw in tweets, sxsw in uploaded Flickr photos and Del.icio.us links.
Twemes.com also allows for adhoc polls to be created associated to a tweme.
During the conference, live blogging about the technical summit was made available by Char James-Tanny on Scribblelive. You may review the posts there for the following sessions:
* STC 2008 “STC Salary Database”
* STC 2008 “It’s Not the Software, It’s the Features”
* STC 2008 “Leadership Day”
AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.
Please bear in mind that no active product support will be available.
Q: Does this mean that Netscape is dead?
A: While we will no longer support the Netscape web browser as of February 1, 2008, Netscape.com (http://www.netscape.com) will still continue to serve as a general use Internet portal.
With most new members joining the chapter in time for the registration deadline for the STC Technical Communication Summit, May was a slow month for us for new members. Nevertheless, we are happy to report that the following two people joined us last month.
I attended the STC conference in Philly last week. Now that I’ve returned to work, I’ve been thinking about ways that I can apply what I learned at the conference. Then I wondered what changes others were going to make or what lessons they have learned from the conference.
So, I have a challenge for those who attended the conference. What was one thing that stuck with you from the conference (and I don’t mean the Cheesesteaks)? What are you going to do differently in your job?
In this article Kath Moonan examines what Web 2.0 is and what implications it might have for disabled people who use the Web, particularly the use of Ajax for interactive web pages.
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