Link to Your Blog Post for November 30

Please post a link to your tenth and final article review.

Link to Your Blog Post for November 23

Please add a link to your penultimate article review.

Link to Your Blog Post for November 16

Please add a link in the comments to your eighth article review. Remember that linking from these posts is your official submission of work.

Link to Your Blog Post for November 9

Please add a link to this week's article review in the comments of this post. As I mentioned in class tonight, please keep an eye on formatting consistency from review to review. Only three more to go!

Link to Your Blog Post for October 26

Please add a link to your article review for this week.

Link to Your Blog Post for October 19

Please add a link to your article review for this week. This should be your fifth review of the semester.

Link to Your Blog Post for October 12

Please add a link to your article review for this week.

Site Evaluation: occupywallst.org

As another follow-up to our discussion tonight (the part of it that didn't focus on Apple or Amazon and their respective product announcements), I'd like you to check out the main website for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.

http://www.occupywallst.org

Consider this site in critical terms from an information design and usability perspective. What information is made available on the site? How is the navigation structured?

How might you categorize the different types of users who might visit this site? How does the format of the site serve the needs of different groups of users?

What about the tools integrated into the site? Does the site make direct use of the Twitter hashtag #occupywallst?

Any other observations? How does it fare in search results? Do they use variants of their URL to capture traffic that might otherwise be redirected elsewhere?

Collect your observations and put them into a short paper (you can organize it using bullet points or an outline, if you prefer -- it need not be fluid prose). I'd like the equivalent of at least one word-processed page (about 250 words, not characters) of observations posted as an entry on your blog by the start of our next class.

Link to Your Blog Post for October 5

Please add a link to your article review for this week.

Link to Your Blog Post for September 21

Please add a link to your article review for this week. Follow the format explained in the previous collection post.

Link to Your Blog Post for September 14

Please add a comment to this blog post with a direct link to your first article review. Please include these three elements:

1. your first name
2. the title of the article that you reviewed
3. a direct link to your review

For example, if I added a comment for the sample review that I created it would look like this:

1. Justin
2. "The Dirty Little Secrets of Search"
3. http://webarchitecture-fa11.blogspot.com/p/sampe-blog-post-searching-for-trouble.html

Second Class Meeting: Creating Your Blogs

The second half of our class today will be dedicated to creating your blogs. You'll create individual Blogger accounts to use during the semester.

Your syllabus indicates that a blog title and blog url are due for this session; these will be due by the end of class. Your first article review (blog entry) will be due at the beginning of our next class.

I've posted several links on this site to provide you with information about how to create blog posts (see the "Pages" module in the right-hand column). Please review these carefully as you undertake your first post.

Here's a link to the Blogger site:

Blogger
http://www.blogger.com