Sunday, March 4, 2007
Information Architecture Readings
I have been having so much fun with these readings! First of all, they are chunked and easy to read (as Jake mentioned to me the other night in class). But how I have been having fun is by going to the web pages the authors cite right while I am reading (instead of telling myself I've got to check this out later). When I got to chapter 4 about the Gustavus home page, and the authors say, "You can't help but notice the site's colors (you'll have to take our word for it)"; that's when I decided not to take their "word" but to go to the site right away. It is quite attractive, and interesting to navigate see for yourself! I was also amazed at del.icio.us; this must be that the site that Elizabeth mentioned earlier in the semester? At any rate, I am in awe of it! I think it would be a great tool to show my students for them to collect sites, especially for their webography project we have coming up. But does anyone know how big the risk, if any, for losing your collected sites and information on del.icio.us? Does this kind of thing happen often? Lastly, here is a blog that seemed interesting for us based off or our readings; it is part of the Instone's site mentioned on page 48 for his Navigation Stress Test. I'm sure many of you either already looked at these links, or would be looking at them. I hope I didn't butt in on the moderators this week, but I was just so excited and I'm sure they will have much more to say and show than what I am doing! I just thought I'd throw up a few links to make it quicker and easier for you some of you to see these. But I really want to know about the reliability of del.icio.us, so if anyone knows anything, please respond!
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Thanks for posting the hyperlinks, Tira! I can't testify to del.icio.us's reliability, but I'm familiar with the tag-based system of organization, known as Folksonomy.
I use Flickr, where photos are linked together by user tags as well. For the most part it works pretty well, but its effectiveness also depends on how well others tag their own material.
Tira,
John's comments about the efficacy of the tags very much applies to delicious as well. I've never heard of anyone losing their links... I think you should probably think of their service in the same terms as a as a free email provider; they're probably equally reliable. (Granted, I've had many problems with free email providers, and none with delicious, but I don't really see a reason to give this organization any more credit without proof.)
I'm glad you liked it! I've found it immeasurably useful when researching online from a computer other than my home pc. I almost never use the bookmarks in my browser anymore--it's so much more convenenient to be able to access them from delicious at any computer! I would highly recommend it for students--just be wary of the distraction factor.
I just realized that my comments are addressed in Chapter 5. That's what I get for posting before I've completed all the readings! Sorry about that.
thanks for your input guys!
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