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Holding on to Reality, Part 3 [edited/posted]

As an alternate approach to Borgmann’s writing in this third and final section of the book, perhaps a quick recap of where the author ultimately intends to go is in order: Borgmann, over the course of more than one hundred pages of meandering and overexplanation of marginally illustrative technological [...]

Holding on to Reality, Part 2 [edited/reposted]

Throughout part 2 of Holding on to Reality, Borgmann (1999) approaches ‘cultural’ information as a multifaceted type of information, at once defined through its difference from ‘natural’ information, (where the former is “for the shaping of reality,” unlike the latter ‘natural’ information which is “about reality”), but also in [...]

on Web Theory, chapters 8, 9, conclusion; Holding onto Reality, Part 1, [edited/reposted]

While Burnett & Marshall provide a gloss of Web-based news delivery at the moment of their writing, their predictive powers are perhaps not as keen in this chapter.  To their credit, convergence of different media to deliver an entirely different conception of news, [...]

on Web Theory, chapters 5-7

Chapter 5, “The Look of the Web,” endeavors to understand the structure of the Web in an historical context, (through histories of “graphic structures” of computers and television, as well as through the development of hypertext), as well as through a slight engagement with semiotics.  The first precursor of the ‘look [...]

on Web Theory, chapters 2 – 4

Chapter 2 (“Information and Networks”) describes the interaction of information through a networked environment to make up what we know as the now-central outgrowth of the Internet, ‘the Web’.  The chapter attempts this exploration by first reviewing the concept of information, with a heavy emphasis on the impact of [...]

on DigitalWeb, InfoCamp, Intranet Roadmap, Adaptive Path, and Information ArchiTECH

DigitalWeb Magazine – http://www.digital-web.com/ – This site seems decent resource for web development, though with the rapid progression in IA, the resources linked are more an historical survey than they are updated, reliably new content. It doesn’t appear that the entire site was updated when the [...]

on IA for the WWW ch. 20 & 21; Web Theory, ch. 1

The primary take-away from the example of the development of MSWeb is the applicability of traditional library and IT solutions, but with room for maneuvering. This is repeatedly mentioned across both chapter 20 and chapter 21, in regard to Microsoft’s work as well [...]

on Karin McGrane & Louis Rosenfeld’s PowerPoint, Selling IA

More than anything, this is an addendum to the Morville & Rosenfeld reading of chapters 17 & 18 of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, but it is worth (1) recording a note about this presentation for future reference, and (2) acknowledging that the experience of [...]

on free software sites (Google Pack, FSF, Freeware Files, Free-soft)

For Google Pack, it is important to stress the need to review all of the information on the ‘learn more about Google Pack’ link near the bottom right of the linked page, as well as to read the terms of use for the software a user [...]

on IA for the WWW, chapters 17 & 18

As someone already in the position of having to justify staff, student, consulting, and technical services expenditures to a variety of decision-makers, I cannot stress strongly enough how useful Morville & Rosenfeld’s chapter ‘Making the case for IA’ will be. Some of the tactics are familiar – [...]