Re: Howtoons: The future of tech docs?

["Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>]

"Darren Barefoot" <darren -at- capulet -dot- com> wrote in message
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>
> This is not your father's technical documentation anymore. Howtoons
> (http://www.howtoons.org/) are one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15
> year-old kids how to build things. I particularly like their explanation
> of binary: http://howtoons.net/archives/final/compcount.html.

So instead of flipping someone off, I can just shout "binary four!" at them.
:)

>
> Why leave restrict this to 5-to-15 year-olds? I'd enjoy assembling a
> bookshelf a lot more if the instructions came with mustachioed villains
> and buxom heroines.
>

One or both of those probably has little to not appeal to a significant
percentage of the audience. How would you account for diversity?


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