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Monday, June 14, 2004

GrokDoc Goes Live. I am happy to tell you that GrokDoc, the web site for our community usability study of GNU/Linux newbies -- applying free and open source ideals to documentation -- has been set up. It's here, and it's a wiki format, because that is what most of you said you thought would work the best. We've got it set up to begin, and now it's ready for you to do your part, the actual study. Our goal is to find out what newbies need to make the switch to GNU/Linux and then to create a useful manual on basic tasks that new users will find simple and clear and easy to follow, using what we learn from our study. There has never been such a community usability study on this scale for GNU/Linux systems, so far as I have been able to determine, and we are approaching it in a new way. We are not trying to duplicate effort. We are trying something brand new. Instead of experts telling newbies how to do things, we will let newbies show and tell us what they need. [GrokLaw]
5:37:33 PM

Anders Hejlsberg - Tour through computing industry history at the Microsoft Museum. Anders Hejlberg is a distinguished engineer here. At least that's his official title. But that doesn't do justice to the role he's played in the industry (first at Borland, where he ran the team that developed Turbo Pascal and later Delphi, or here at Microsoft, where he and his team developed C#).

But, don't take our word for it -- listen in as he takes you (and interviewer Charles Torre) on a tour of part of Microsoft's Museum and the part he played in computer industry history.
Watch the Video [Watched threads for: The Channel 9 Team]
5:27:58 PM

Public Radio Exchange Site Launches

Public Radio Exchange Site Launches

Posted by simoniker on Monday June 14, @02:42PM
from the punk-in-drublic dept.
TheSync writes "The Public Radio Exchange web site has opened its doors. Radio show producers can sign up to upload programming for peer-review and electronic distribution to public radio stations that like the content. Avid listeners can sign up (for free) to listen and review potential programming. PRX just received a $1.5 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and they are looking for a summer intern in Boston."

[Slashdot]

5:23:58 PM