iFixit’s “fabulously cool” new teardown platform

Lawrence Lessig posted about an interesting new feature on the iFixit website. iFixit sells Apple iPod and PowerBook parts and accessories, but they also provide illustrated how-to instructions for how to service these Apple products. Now, they have provided a “teardown platform” to help users post their own procedures. The platform takes advantage of the backend system that iFixit uses to provide their own procedures.

iFixit is providing a "teardown" platform for user-contributed procedures

This is a great development in user-contributed documentation. While iFixit’s content may not be as complex as a newtork admin reference, for example, this platform may prove to be a good model for technical communicators going forward.