Re: Please describe value of Information Mapping

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

Thank you, Sue.

Bob's point must be that the movement was in response to technical 
documents not being read or used.

I keep hoping for a new interpretation of the problem and those 
experiments. Nurnburg Funnel indeed. We're supposed to be verging on 
Instant Karma by now.

Going back to sleep now,

Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com


Susan W Gallagher wrote:
> Ned,
> The Minimalist Documentation movement began with John M. Carroll's _The 
> Nurnberg Funnel_ and is further discussed and explained in _Minimalism 
> Beyond the Nurnberg Funnel_ edited by Carroll and featuring chapters by 
> Joann Hackos and Ginny Redish. _Minimalism Beyond ..._ is the book to 
> read to learn about minimalism in practice.
>  
> Some of the practices that Carroll introduced are to document only a 
> single way to perform a task, encourage exploration, support recovery, 
> ...Many of Carroll's points have become conventional wisdom/common sense 
> over the years.
>  
> Much of Carroll's early work centered around tutorials for programmers 
> learning Smalltalk, and a lot of what he said in _The Nurnberg Funnel_ 
> makes more sense in the training arena than in a user guide. But the 
> work that's been done since then (by Carroll and others) has taken the 
> original Minimalist principles and adapted them to user guides and the like.
>  
> HTH
> -Sue Gallagher
> 
>  
> On 4/6/08, *Ned Bedinger* <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com 
> <mailto:doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>> wrote:
> 
>     Bob Doyle wrote:
> 
> 
>      > The whole MInimalism movement in the 1990's showed that the average
>      > technical document was just not being read or used.
> 
>     Hi Bob, I've enjoyed your perspective and comments about DITA. I'd like
>     to understand about Minimalism in the 1990s. I'm not clear whether it
>     refers to a consumer-initiated movement toward intuitive products where
>     the documentation didn't matter to them, or perhaps something that came
>     about with the innovation lust and the quest for new competitve
>     advantages in the speculative dotcoms business era.
> 
>     If you would share something of your perspective on it, I'll try and get
>     oriented.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Ned Bedinger
>     doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com <mailto:doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
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