Write down all the organizational structures from both readings with enough info to remember them.
Web Style Guide:
Themes to organize information include by:
Category
Time
Location
Alphabetic
Continuum
Card sorting and chunking are self explanatory.
Different types of hierarchy include:
Hub and Spoke (middle going out)
More complex (one starting point and several sub pages)
Web shows the links between different pages.
All of these start linear and get more and more complicated until you reach a web.
Wireframes are a rough outline, almost a sketch, of a website before it's built
Eyetracking:
How the eye moves through the page, 2 types the Poynter study where people work to the bottom then move back up and the F pattern and the golden triangle which shows how people typically start looking at the top left hand corner and move down.
Information Architecture:
Challenges include ambiguity, heterogeneity, differences in perspective, internal politics
Different organization schemes include:
Exact (mutually exclusive sections) such as alphabetical, chronological, geographical
Ambiguous (no clear definition) such as topical, task oriented, audience specific and metaphor driven
Hybrid mixes these
Hierarchy: top down, this can be narrow and deep or broad and shallow
Hypertext: connected in no specific way which allows for flexibility but can be confusing
Database: also a top down approach and is the most detailed
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Blog #6
Weinberger's main point was about everything becoming miscellaneous with the internet and how ways to organize things have completely changed resulting in a change in the way people communicate and learn.
Jenkins's main point was that the internet has led us to convergence culture which has caused communication to evolve into participatory culture.
Lessig's main point was that the internet has changed the way we view copyright and that creative industries are going to have to change, they can't change the public.
I think that their aren't really any crucial key terms to understand their points because I feel like the key terms are fairly self explanatory (miscellaneous, convergence, participatory culture, hybrid economies, remix) and we spent a lot of time going over them already I feel like they're been beaten to death. All three books really center around media convergence and how media and information are becoming more and more interconnected.
Connections:
All three books focus on participatory culture and convergence and how websites like Wikipedia have changed how we search for information and use information and how regular people are now major players in creating information. These books all discuss how the world is changing with the invention of the internet and the Net Generation which has had access to the internet basically their whole life and how that has made us process information very differently from generations past.
Final Project:
I think it's important for us to consider that while we are familiar with all the concepts discussed in all three of these books, many people that will visit the website are not and aren't used to using information like we are. This website and social media will have to be extremely basic and user friendly in a way that we would not necessarily consider. We have to reorganize this information with the people that Weinberger, Jenkins and Lessig wrote their books for in mind, not people our age who are used to the internet and the way information is organized with the internet.
Jenkins's main point was that the internet has led us to convergence culture which has caused communication to evolve into participatory culture.
Lessig's main point was that the internet has changed the way we view copyright and that creative industries are going to have to change, they can't change the public.
I think that their aren't really any crucial key terms to understand their points because I feel like the key terms are fairly self explanatory (miscellaneous, convergence, participatory culture, hybrid economies, remix) and we spent a lot of time going over them already I feel like they're been beaten to death. All three books really center around media convergence and how media and information are becoming more and more interconnected.
Connections:
All three books focus on participatory culture and convergence and how websites like Wikipedia have changed how we search for information and use information and how regular people are now major players in creating information. These books all discuss how the world is changing with the invention of the internet and the Net Generation which has had access to the internet basically their whole life and how that has made us process information very differently from generations past.
Final Project:
I think it's important for us to consider that while we are familiar with all the concepts discussed in all three of these books, many people that will visit the website are not and aren't used to using information like we are. This website and social media will have to be extremely basic and user friendly in a way that we would not necessarily consider. We have to reorganize this information with the people that Weinberger, Jenkins and Lessig wrote their books for in mind, not people our age who are used to the internet and the way information is organized with the internet.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Blog #5
Main Point:
The main point is to introduce you to the concept of convergence culture through a few examples. Jenkins says that the book is about the relationship between media convergence, participatory culture and collective intelligence.
Quotes:
"From his bedroom, Ignacio sparked an international controversy"
"Each of us constructs our own personal mythology from bits and fragments of information extracted from the media flow and transformed into resources through which we make sense of our everyday lives"
Real World Connection:
When Jenkins discusses how a Bollywood film in 2004 was distributed via cellphones, that reminds me of iTunes U and how now students in some schools can attend a lecture without leaving their room.
Connection to Weinberger:
Jenkins and Weinberger both appear to be explaining things to us that we already know, suggesting that college students in technological fields are not their intended audience. Also, they both discuss how different forms of information are changing the world and leading us into a new era.
The main point is to introduce you to the concept of convergence culture through a few examples. Jenkins says that the book is about the relationship between media convergence, participatory culture and collective intelligence.
Quotes:
"From his bedroom, Ignacio sparked an international controversy"
"Each of us constructs our own personal mythology from bits and fragments of information extracted from the media flow and transformed into resources through which we make sense of our everyday lives"
Real World Connection:
When Jenkins discusses how a Bollywood film in 2004 was distributed via cellphones, that reminds me of iTunes U and how now students in some schools can attend a lecture without leaving their room.
Connection to Weinberger:
Jenkins and Weinberger both appear to be explaining things to us that we already know, suggesting that college students in technological fields are not their intended audience. Also, they both discuss how different forms of information are changing the world and leading us into a new era.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The end of Weinberger!
So, what was the point of Weinberger? He asks at the beginning and the end of the book if everything is miscellaneous, why doesn't it stay that way? He then spends the entire book arguing in some ways that things should stay miscellaneous, and others that they shouldn't which left me confused. Towards the end, he said that we work towards understanding and that in a conversation, we are looking for understanding and not just knowledge. Maybe his point was that as he said, the third order leads to meaning, and that metadata and Web 2.0 are the understanding whereas the old style of books and encyclopedias are simply knowledge, not what people are looking for at all. He also says that metadata scares people because order is lost and I think that is true to a certain extent, but will only be temporary. I think younger generations growing up with metadata won't be scared of it, like DTC majors now. We're not scared of wikipedia, or urban dictionary, or sites like digg. In fact, some of us choose those websites over more reputable ones because we like the way information is stored on them better. Metadata has become an important part of our lives, whether we like it or not.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Blog #3
Chapter 8:
Main Point:
While tags help organize information online, no matter what these facts say you will never know the whole story behind the picture/video/wikipedia article etc. He says that these things may seem like they're saying nothing, but these tags are just as important as the warning on a blowdryer telling you not to use it while you're asleep.
So What?
Weinberger discusses how in the third order we externalize meaning, not just identifying features and facts. He's saying that as the world becomes more miscellaneous and as Web 2.0 expands the problem of not really knowing anything beyond what something is based on its tags is being fixed. As a DTC major, I should care about this because Weinberger is saying that our field is imperative to preserving the meaning behind things cited online.
Chapter 9:
Main Point: I feel like the main point in Ch. 9 is pretty much the same as the whole book. Weinberger explains how having infinitely more information available to the public is changing the world, in this particular chapter he discusses how on the web messiness goes to a whole new level that make the way we "know" things completely different.
So What? This matters to DTC majors because many of us will be working with/designing things like websites where it's very important to keep the things Weinberger discusses in mind. We thing from our cultural viewpoint, but others might not and the internet is international and not specific to American culture.
Main Point:
While tags help organize information online, no matter what these facts say you will never know the whole story behind the picture/video/wikipedia article etc. He says that these things may seem like they're saying nothing, but these tags are just as important as the warning on a blowdryer telling you not to use it while you're asleep.
So What?
Weinberger discusses how in the third order we externalize meaning, not just identifying features and facts. He's saying that as the world becomes more miscellaneous and as Web 2.0 expands the problem of not really knowing anything beyond what something is based on its tags is being fixed. As a DTC major, I should care about this because Weinberger is saying that our field is imperative to preserving the meaning behind things cited online.
Chapter 9:
Main Point: I feel like the main point in Ch. 9 is pretty much the same as the whole book. Weinberger explains how having infinitely more information available to the public is changing the world, in this particular chapter he discusses how on the web messiness goes to a whole new level that make the way we "know" things completely different.
So What? This matters to DTC majors because many of us will be working with/designing things like websites where it's very important to keep the things Weinberger discusses in mind. We thing from our cultural viewpoint, but others might not and the internet is international and not specific to American culture.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Post #2-Weinberger Ch. 5 and 6
Chapter 5:
Main Point:
Humans feel the need to make sense of big piles of information. This chapter talks about how at times letting information stay seemingly miscellaneous can actually be helpful. This is shown in the cases of websites such as flickr and wikipedia.
Quotes:
"If anything, it's reality that's obsessive-compulsive"
"The third order takes the territory subjugated by classification and liberates it"
Connection:
The part about flickr and wikipedia reminds me of how sometimes it's easier to look things up from sources like that because it leads to more of the type of information I'm looking for, such as when you hear a slang word you've never heard before and you turn to something like urban dictionary instead of Webster's.
Chapter 6:
Main Point:
The main point of this chapter is that there needs to be a definition for something in order for it to be classified. Leaves can't hang off a particular branch unless it has a concrete definition. In the third order, a lot of things don't have this definition so you have to work around the typical tree to organize it.
Quotes:
"Kroger estimates that RFID tags attached to temperature sensors could cut spoilage in half"
"But cancer now seems to be a collection of hundreds of diseases"
"It may be harder for our computers to assemble all the leaves that talk about something as loosely defined as Hamlet or diabetes, but we're only going to get better at this. We have to."
Connection:
When he talks about how it's comforting to see card catalogs, it reminds me of how sometimes a book seems like a more legitimate source than a website, even if it's not necessarily more credible.
Main Point:
Humans feel the need to make sense of big piles of information. This chapter talks about how at times letting information stay seemingly miscellaneous can actually be helpful. This is shown in the cases of websites such as flickr and wikipedia.
Quotes:
"If anything, it's reality that's obsessive-compulsive"
"The third order takes the territory subjugated by classification and liberates it"
Connection:
The part about flickr and wikipedia reminds me of how sometimes it's easier to look things up from sources like that because it leads to more of the type of information I'm looking for, such as when you hear a slang word you've never heard before and you turn to something like urban dictionary instead of Webster's.
Chapter 6:
Main Point:
The main point of this chapter is that there needs to be a definition for something in order for it to be classified. Leaves can't hang off a particular branch unless it has a concrete definition. In the third order, a lot of things don't have this definition so you have to work around the typical tree to organize it.
Quotes:
"Kroger estimates that RFID tags attached to temperature sensors could cut spoilage in half"
"But cancer now seems to be a collection of hundreds of diseases"
"It may be harder for our computers to assemble all the leaves that talk about something as loosely defined as Hamlet or diabetes, but we're only going to get better at this. We have to."
Connection:
When he talks about how it's comforting to see card catalogs, it reminds me of how sometimes a book seems like a more legitimate source than a website, even if it's not necessarily more credible.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Blog #1
Prologue:
Summary:
Throughout history, physical limitations guide how information is organized. Now, the digital world is allowing us to completely reorganize the way information is stored.
Quotes:
“Information is easy. Space, time and atoms are hard.”
“Human physical abilities are limited, so the amount of information provided to us is constrained by our ability to see,”
Real world connection:
When they talked about “sales assistants” instead of “associates” reminds me of saying delayed success instead of failure-it’s really the same thing but calling it something else makes people feel better. Also it reminded me of walking through a grocery store trying to find things like spaghetti sauce-is it by the pasta, the cheese or canned tomatoes?
Chapter 1:
Main point:
This chapter was about how data is organized in the digital world. It discussed how things are changing now that there’s so much more stuff-digital pictures, digital music, etc. The chapter talked about how we are going to have to change because methods of organization have changed so much.
Quotes:
“You browse when you intentionally ignore the organizational structure the store has carefully imposed on its stock,”
“To get as good at browsing as we are at finding…we have to get rid of the idea that there’s a best way of organizing the world.”
Real world connection:
When they talked about information being bits that hit you like a ton of bricks that reminds me of the first time you go into something like iTunes or Wikipedia or Netflix and there’s just so much stuff you don’t even know where to begin.
Chapter 2:
Main Point:
This chapter talked about the alphabet and how it is organized as well as the idea of a universal alphabet. It also talked about how definitions of things like planets and what was powerful in the world-cosmos and then god-have changed and how their places have changed.
Quotes:
“Precisely because alphabetical order is unnatural and arbitrary, it took a long time to be accepted.”
“Even though the harmony of the spheres and the Great Chain have fallen out of favor, we still believe there is an order to nature waiting to be discovered,”
Real world connection:
While they were talking about huge encyclopedias, I thought of how much easier it is now to look things up on online encyclopedias rather than the ones in books where you might have to check two or three entries if not more to find what you’re looking for.
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