The Proteus Blog

May 4, 2009

XXE is “Awesome”

 Earlier this year I learned some new writing tools—DITA, XXE, and Bluestream’s XDocs Explorer 2.0 CMS. It took a few long days to get my head around some new concepts; however, I am now an enthusiastic user of DITA-based structured writing tools. It is with a sort of evangelistic enthusiasm that I write about a couple [...]

April 27, 2009

Comic Delivery of Information

Comics* have become a recognized medium for art and information delivery in mainstream culture. Google released the introduction to their browser in a comic book format, Hollywood turns out dozens of comic-based movies, comics appear in major art museums and galleries, and books such as Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography by Chester Brown have [...]