Dr Karl Stolley

Assistant Professor of Technical Communication, Illinois Institute of Technology

Items Tagged ‘open source’

My ‘open source’ Bookmarks on Del.icio.us

WordPress › Blog » Usability Testing Report: 2.5 and Crazyhorse
Interesting post about the usability testing behind the new administrative interface in WordPress. (October 30, 2008)
Bush Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar | Threat Level from Wired.com
Just what we need...although it appears we can thank the congress for this one. (October 13, 2008)
Slashdot | Rights to Virtual Property In Games?
Interesting story about "virtual property." (October 13, 2008)
Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone
arXiv, the open-access clearinghouse for scientific research, now hosts over half a million scientific papers. (October 08, 2008)
WIRED NEXTFEST
In Millennium Park 9/27-10/12. Thanks to JS for passing along. (September 29, 2008)
The Freenet Project - /index
Freenet project--an open, distributed project meant to avoid censorship on the Internet. (September 23, 2008)
People's Republic of China: State control of the internet in China. | Amnesty International
Report Benkler refers to on pp. 266-271 of The Wealth of Networks. (September 23, 2008)
Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm | Epicenter from Wired.com
Interesting article on a start-up that's offering open source textbooks...sort of. (September 03, 2008)
Halloween Documents
The infamous "Halloween Documents"--memos from Microsoft--released in late 1998 and outlining Microsofts internal analysis of and plans to destroy open source software. Originally housed at opensource.org, Eric Raymond keeps the documents here. (September 01, 2008)
Google on Google Chrome - comic book
Comic book drawn by Scott McCloud of "Understanding Comics" fame. It touts the design strategy behind the new Google browser code(?)-named "Chrome." (September 01, 2008)

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.

On Twitter: Running updates on my campus Mac before getting to the serious work.

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