Technical Communication's Need for Categories
Chris Curwen posted an article to TC-FORUM in 2001 (http://tc.eserver.org/23451.html) about the need for categories to clarify the field of technical communication. He goes to the lengths of arguing...
View ArticleRecord Readership, the Past Few Days
Looking through the EServer's usage report, we see that in the past few days the EServer has had almost record readership. On Monday, April 22nd, we served 648,949 hits to over 102,400 visitors. On...
View ArticleCategory Headings for a TC Body of Knowledge
Hi everyone,As I look at the TC Library's description of itself on the home page as 'a comprehensive single location from which to access the complete body of knowledge in our field', I am thinking of...
View ArticleNew TC Library Group on Facebook
The TC Library now has a Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/9433936417/Feel free to join, if you're a Facebook user. The group may help us to publicize the site, and may help TC Library...
View ArticleTeaching/Learning with the TC Library
In a recent conversation on the ATTW-L mailing list (http://tc.eserver.org/10197.html), Clay Spinuzzi (http://clayspinuzzi.com/) asked faculty members in the Association of Teachers of Technical...
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Using the EServer TC Library for Course "Outside Readings"
Almost two years ago, I posted a rough note here about teaching my intro to technical communication course using the TC Library as a supplement to the textbook. Here's a more detailed essay on the...
View ArticleTC Library Spammed
Hi everyone,Yesterday, while working on our new search engine webcrawler software, I noticed that about 250 of the TC Library's entries had been defaced. It seems they'd been edited by a web robot, to...
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2013: A Record Year for EServer Readership
2013 was a record year for EServer readership.In 2013, the EServer served writings in the arts and humanities to 27,093,363 readers, our largest number of visitors in a single year ever. (Our previous...
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Net Neutrality and the Digital Humanities
Net Neutrality and the Digital HumanitiesGeoffrey SauerJanuary 15, 2014 There's been a great deal of discussion in the past 24 hours about the decision yesterday from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
View ArticleUnable to access content in tc eserver
For some reason, tc.eserver isn't producing results from any of my searches. Can anyone explain why this is happening? The website seems to be working, but not producing a list of search...
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EServer Approaches Its 25th Anniversary Online
Looking back at a 1994 map of Internet resources published by MacUser, I see the EServer located prominently in the "Arts & Humanities" zone (under our original name, "The English Server", and our...
View ArticleAn Iowa State University News Story about the EServer, as the 25th...
There's a nice story today about the EServer's upcoming 25th anniversary on the ISU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences website.http://www.las.iastate.edu/before-e-books-eserver-org-turns-25/
View ArticleAdding New Security Rules
This week we've begun a new effort to reduce hacking attacks against our servers, blocking many HTTP requests from computer programs that send hundreds of requests per minute to EServer URLs such as...
View ArticleUnplanned Downtime
Hi everyone,I was just in the office, working on one of the EServer workstations, when suddenly the power went off in our office. Our battery backups worked as they're supposed to, keeping the...
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