Two useful links for our class discussion tonight. The first is an article from a site (Boxes and Arrows) that's a great resource for topics related to information architecture. The second is a Web 2.0 application that's attempting to take some of the pain out of diagramming sites.
Site Diagrams: Mapping an Information Space
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/site_diagrams_mapping_an_information_space
WriteMaps
http://www.writemaps.com
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Sources for Articles
I heard some feedback after class last week about people wondering where to find good articles. I have a few suggestions that I'm offering in this post.
I also want to remind everyone that you should be writing about why the article you've selected is relevant to class. What's interesting about it? What connects it to information design, or some part of the future direction of the Web or Internet that makes you choose it?
You don't really need to include an article summary, per se. You can just refer to the piece as you discuss its relevance.
With no further ado, here are some sources that you may find interesting, or may already use:
Financial Times Digital Business Section
http://www.ft.com/technology/digitalbusiness
InfoDesign: Understanding by Design
http://www.informationdesign.org/
mediabistro
http://www.mediabistro.com/
New York Times Technology Section
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html
O'Reilly
http://oreilly.com/
slashdot
http://slashdot.org/
Wired
http://www.wired.com/
ZDNet
http://news.zdnet.com/
If you have a special interest in issues about privacy, intellectual property, and ethical uses of technology, then the following sites might lead you good places:
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/
Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://epic.org/
I also want to remind everyone that you should be writing about why the article you've selected is relevant to class. What's interesting about it? What connects it to information design, or some part of the future direction of the Web or Internet that makes you choose it?
You don't really need to include an article summary, per se. You can just refer to the piece as you discuss its relevance.
With no further ado, here are some sources that you may find interesting, or may already use:
Financial Times Digital Business Section
http://www.ft.com/technology/digitalbusiness
InfoDesign: Understanding by Design
http://www.informationdesign.org/
mediabistro
http://www.mediabistro.com/
New York Times Technology Section
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html
O'Reilly
http://oreilly.com/
slashdot
http://slashdot.org/
Wired
http://www.wired.com/
ZDNet
http://news.zdnet.com/
If you have a special interest in issues about privacy, intellectual property, and ethical uses of technology, then the following sites might lead you good places:
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/
Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://epic.org/
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Editing Blog Posts
I've received a few questions about problems formatting text using Blogger's WYSIWYG editor. I want to offer a couple of tips.
First, you may want to cut and paste and text that you intend to use on your blog into a text-only editor before pasting it into Blogger's editor. This will strip out any residual formatting that may be carried from programs like Microsoft Word. You can then apply formatting in Blogger.
If you're a Windows user, then using Notepad should do the trick. On the Mac side, you may want to consider a free program like Textwrangler (http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/). Although TextEdit can also be used the same way, it defaults to retain some formatting from other contexts.
Second, if your WYSIWYG options seem to disappear (e.g., you can't find the dropdown menu for changing the font), make sure you are in the right editing mode. There are three separate modes in Blogger's editor and you can switch between them using the buttons at the top right. See the illustration below.
First, you may want to cut and paste and text that you intend to use on your blog into a text-only editor before pasting it into Blogger's editor. This will strip out any residual formatting that may be carried from programs like Microsoft Word. You can then apply formatting in Blogger.
If you're a Windows user, then using Notepad should do the trick. On the Mac side, you may want to consider a free program like Textwrangler (http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/). Although TextEdit can also be used the same way, it defaults to retain some formatting from other contexts.
Second, if your WYSIWYG options seem to disappear (e.g., you can't find the dropdown menu for changing the font), make sure you are in the right editing mode. There are three separate modes in Blogger's editor and you can switch between them using the buttons at the top right. See the illustration below.
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