Kathleen Hudson's Weblog

This week, we really got into the textbook “Web Theory: An Introduction” by Robert Burnett and P. David Marshall. We were asked to review chapters 2, 3, and 4. Chapter 2 deals with information and networks. According to the authors (2003), “This chapter unravels the way that theories of information and theories of the network [...]

We had several web sites to view this week. The first I looked at was InfoCamp located at http://infocamp.info/. InfoCamp is an open conference that allows people who are enthusiastic about information to congregate so that they can join forces compare ideas and form a community. InfoCamp welcomes people from a wide range of [...]

For this week, one of the things we were required to review was a PowerPoint presentation on IA selling strategies and conundrums by Karin McGrane &Louis Rosenfeld called “Selling IA.” When architects are selling IA, it is important to view it as a display of how vital IA can be for a business model. IA [...]

There were four web sites that were listed for our lesson this week. The first was Google Pack that is located at http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html?hl=en&gl=us&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-google&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=free%20software. This site looked really interesting although I was not able to view all of it as Google Pack requires Windows XP or Vista and I don’t have either of those [...]

For our readings this week, we were required to read chapters 17 and 18 of the Morville & Rosenfeld text. These chapters were great to read because I do have some understanding of the topics that were discussed. Chapter 17 dealt with the importance of marketing Information Architecture to the world. I know how important [...]

There were two web sites that we were required to review this week. The first I looked at was the TextMap web site located at http://www.textmap.com/. I was not at all impressed with this site. Firstly, the labeling was quite poor. There was no clarification of the labeling or from where the data was obtained. [...]

This week, I read chapters 14-16 from the Morville and Rosenfeld text and the reading was excellent in terms of the topics being explained in a concise and brief manner without a lot of extraneous details. Chapter 14 is an important topic as it deals with Ethics and the issues and responsibilities that information architects [...]

One of the sites we were required to visit was a site called Media 7 located at http://www.net.vg/media7/index.html. This site was pretty cool to look at and was quite simple to navigate. I noticed the use of Flicker to promote the designs and thought that was an excellent way to present the work so many [...]

This week, the assignment was to read chapters 12 and 13 from the Morville and Rosenfeld text. In chapter 12, the authors focus the process of design and documentation. One of the first things that are discussed is the importance using diagrams and visual aids when presenting IA designs to clients. This can be a [...]