The Art of Documentation

Call it the New Digital Divide. In the early days of the Web, social innovators predicted it would spawn a more open and democratic society. Today, though, that hope is being strongly challenged.

By Bruce Schneier

Schneier is the author of the best sellers “Schneier on Security,” “Beyond Fear,” “Secrets and Lies,” and “Applied Cryptography,” and an inventor of the Blowfish, Twofish, Threefish, Helix, Phelix, and Skein algorithms.  He is the Chief Security Technology Officer of BT BCSG, and is on the Board of [...]

As any designer, project manager, or writer knows, there are times when you need to send large project files to/from clients.
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Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace

December 10, 1815 – November 27, 1852

Contributed by Dr. Betty Toole
Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the most picturesque characters in computer history. Augusta Ada Byron was born December 10, 1815 the daughter of the illustrious poet, Lord Byron. Five weeks after Ada was born Lady Byron asked [...]

Writers are often tasked with writing persuasive essays or articles for their clients.  In persuasive writing, a writer’s goal is essentially to convince the audience to agree with the writer’s position about an issue. In many cases persuasive arguments are used to motivate the audience to not only agree, but to do something; take action, [...]

Do you use Gmail, even for personal mail? Do any of your clients use Gmail? If so, you might have noticed that there was a pretty massive shift in your privacy a couple of days ago. CNET corespondent Molly Wood called it a privacy nightmare. You might not have noticed it. But unless you [...]

Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.
The privacy policy might seem like just another box you have to [...]

As a visual writer, finding the right image to use is always important. Because there are a ton of photographers and graphic artists that generously upload photos for free and fair use using Creative Commons licenses, there is a lot of material out there.  But it can be difficult to sort through free and licensed [...]

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Tim Enalls of Inspiration Pro
According to numerous surveys, approximately 85% percent of our success in life is directly attributable to our communication and relationship building skills.
That means that no matter how ambitious someone is or how much they overcome their fears or how high their level of [...]

Most of my friends have Facebook accounts, and none can understand my constant refusal to join them there. Beside the fact that I don’t have any burning desire to be stalked by ex’s from the 80’s, and I don’t care that my kindergarten teacher is now teaching fuzz appreciation to unloved muppets, and I object [...]