“Every evolving field has its milestones, none of which exists in a vacuum. The timeline on this page shows a few significant events in science and technology that have shaped the field of technical communication. The timeline also indicates concurrent markers in the development of technical communication in general and the Society for Technical Communication in particular.” (Note: Uses frames, click the ‘Timeline’ link).

“The events unfolding in Iraq often defy easy explanation. To take it all in, a reader must understand complicated military technology, vast cultural differences, great stretches of geography, and complex jargon. By working to simplify and define, a visual journalist can help a reader to better understand — illustrating the way something works, outlining key relationships or creating a chronology of events, for example. Poynter Online would like to showcase the efforts of visual journalists as they help readers find clarity. ‘The Art of Explanation’ is a place to share ideas and processes as we continue to improve the graphics we create. We invite artists from around the world to share-pieces that worked well for their audience.”

“Presentations with visual support, typically running under PowerPoint, have become ubiquitous. All of us have been at some time in need of making one of them and they are, increasingly, a part of our daily work.”

“Miksang is a Tibetan word that translates as ‘Good Eye.’ The Miksang Society offers a number of programs, courses and events that present a form of contemplative photography. This school of contemplative photography brings together the art of photography, the discipline of meditation and the Dharma Art teachings of the meditation master and scholar Chogyam Trungpa.”

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“Every evolving field has its milestones, none of which exists in a vacuum. The timeline on this page shows a few significant events in science and technology that have shaped the field of technical communication. The timeline also indicates concurrent markers in the development of technical communication in general and the Society for Technical Communication in particular.” (Note: Uses frames, click the “Timeline” link)

“The events unfolding in Iraq often defy easy explanation. To take it all in, a reader must understand complicated military technology, vast cultural differences, great stretches of geography, and complex jargon. By working to simplify and define, a visual journalist can help a reader to better understand — illustrating the way something works, outlining key relationships or creating a chronology of events, for example. Poynter Online would like to showcase the efforts of visual journalists as they help readers find clarity. ‘The Art of Explanation’ is a place to share ideas and processes as we continue to improve the graphics we create. We invite artists from around the world to share pieces that worked well for their audience.”

“Presentations with visual support, typically running under PowerPoint, have become ubiquitous. All of us have been at some time in need of making one of them and they are, increasingly, a part of our daily work.”

“…at MIT circa 1961 there’s a group of hard core computer nerds calling themselves the tech model railroad club: wayne witanen and j. martin graetz, along with 25 year-old steve russell, they develop the idea to pit two spaceships with limited fuel supplies against each other in a missle duel. the program becomes ’spacewar !,’ the world’s first fully interactive videogame, with russell as main programmer (1962)…”

“The bs.tv peace project jury review has completed. Although the jurors were split on their choice of honorable mentions, they were almost unanimous in the selection of first, second and third favorite entries.”

“The Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill recently that would redesign the state flag. In hopes of ending a decade-long controversy, the new scheme would eliminate the famously divisive Confederate battle flag imagery from the state flag for the first time since the mid-1950s. In its place, Georgia will return to a design based on the original Confederate national flag — the famous ‘Stars and Bars’ — that featured a blue field with three stripes of red and white. On the middle white stripe, the words ‘In God We Trust’ will be written.”

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“The Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill recently that would redesign the state flag. In hopes of ending a decade-long controversy, the new scheme would eliminate the famously divisive Confederate battle flag imagery from the state flag for the first time since the mid-1950s. In its place, Georgia will return to a design based on the original Confederate national flag — the famous ‘Stars and Bars’ — that featured a blue field with three stripes of red and white. On the middle white stripe, the words ‘In God We Trust’ will be written.”

“The bs.tv peace project jury review has completed. Although the jurors were split on their choice of honorable mentions, they were almost unanimous in the selection of first, second and third favorite entries.”

“On April 22, 1993, a group of students at the University of Illinois released a piece of computer code designed to get information from various public networks. Little did they know that their pet project, a humble application named Mosaic, would fundamentally change everyday life.”