About
Shannon Greywalker
Graffiti: Writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place
Diamond Age: The archeological epoch that humanity is now entering; explored in Neal Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age, which envisions the replacement of world governments and countries with corporate fealty for the skilled workers and life on the outside for everyone else
Shannon Greywalker: Currently working as a Senior Technical Writer in Austin, Texas, USA, Shannon has been continuously employed as a career technical writer in the software industry since 1984. He’s often been on the bleeding edge of tools and methodologies for technical communication, instructional design, and distributed collaboration. His notable accomplishments include:
- Implementing a complete XML-based authoring environment and CMS, including custom DTDs and outputs to Word, Postscript, DynaText, back when XML was still called SGML and there wasn’t yet a World Wide Web (and later to Web outputs too once the WWW came along).
- Active participation in the OASIS DITA technical committee that authored the DITA 1.0 specification for XML
- Developing DITA specializations
- Intensive hands-on experience with all major information development methodologies, including:
- Minimalism
- Topic-oriented authoring
- Information Mapping
- Screencasting
- Reference-based training and reusable learning objects (RLOs)
- Wiki development, organization, and moderation
- Developing the Karma-Lab Wiki from the ground up for a commercial software product line
Shannon’s LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sgreywalker
Supported Browsers for this Blog:
- Mac: Chrome for Mac, Firefox for Mac, Safari
- Windows: Firefox, Safari for Windows, IE 7, and IE 8
- Chrome for Windows displays a font that’s too thin, making the page hard to read (it looks great in Chrome for Mac). I’ll fix this some day because Chrome is the best browser out there and rapidly gaining popularity, but such fixes are time-consuming and time is one luxury I have little of these days.
- iDevices: In Mobile Safari, the blog is perfectly readable, but the background image doesn’t tile correctly. Not worth the time to fix, so sorry for teh ugleh background change after the first few paragraphs.
- Other mobile devices: Sorry, I’m not going there. ^.^ Android sales numbers are because people hate AT&T (with good reason). BlackBerries are old school and still alive only because IT shops will support them but not the new-fangled devices. Yet. Apple has rabid evangelists for a good reason, and it has nothing to do with marketing, and it’s in spite of how much most of us dislike AT&T’s pricing, service, and greedy desire to squash net neutrality.
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