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User IA: Blogs, WIKIs & RSS feeds

User IA: Blogs, WIKIs & RSS feeds. By: Daniel Tse. Presentation Agenda. Defining Blogs, Wikis, and RSS Current State of the Internet Relation to Information Architecture. Blogs. What is a Blog? Definition: Blog = Web log

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User IA: Blogs, WIKIs & RSS feeds

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  1. User IA: Blogs, WIKIs & RSS feeds By: Daniel Tse

  2. Presentation Agenda • Defining Blogs, Wikis, and RSS • Current State of the Internet • Relation to Information Architecture

  3. Blogs • What is a Blog? • Definition: • Blog = Web log • A user-maintained website that displays content in reverse chronological order (like reading an online diary, backwards) • Often provides news content or commentary on a subject matter • Users utilize GUI editting tools and simple HTML to create, design, and publish their blog content • Considered a social media because of the ability to share content (videos, photos, audio etc.), create tags, and read/write comments in response to an entry • The Bottom Line: Users given a platform to design, create, publish, and share content at their own discretion.

  4. There are different types of Blogs…

  5. HTML Editor GUI Editting Tools Blogs – GUI and HTML Editors

  6. WIKIs • What is a WIKI? • Definition: • A collaborative share-authoring tool (usually in the form of a website) that can have its content edited simply and freely by its users. • A wiki is comprised of a large index or collection of individual wiki pages that are interconnected based on tags (user-defined, embedded hyperlinks) • Good for collaborative work, and capturing the collective knowledge of many Trivia: What does “wiki” mean? • The Bottom Line: Wikis are highly collaborative and provide users the freedom to edit and share content FAST (in Hawaiian)

  7. WIKI Examples • http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Procrastination&oldid=97341325 • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb

  8. Corporate wikis Simple GUI text editor WIKIs

  9. RSS Feeds • What is an RSS Feed? • Definition: • RSS = Real Simple Syndication (AKA Atom Feeds) • News-feeds to websites that users can subscribe to in order to stay informed with updates to a site’s content. • Aggregating tools (RSS Readers) automatically collect all RSS feeds that a user subscribes to and displays them in one location for the user to read • The process is highly dynamic, automated, and even instantaneous • The Bottom Line: Users decide what content they want to aggregate and the content is automatically and dynamically retrieved—being presented in a single location

  10. Subscribed content feeds all on 1 page RSS Readers RSS Scrolling Tickers Feeds (Headlines) RSS Feeds loaded into your browser Subscribed Content RSS Examples

  11. The Current State of the Internet Most Popular websites (based on traffic): • MySpace (#3) • YouTube (#4) • FaceBook (#5) • Wikipedia (#9) • Blogger (#12) • Digg (#23) * Source: Alexa US Top 100 (ranked based on web traffic) What is a common trait shared by these sites? USER PARTICIPATION

  12. Web 2.0 • “a second generation of web services that differ from the first generation in their utilization and reliance on participation and collaboration” – Tim O’Reilly • Borrows from open-source philosophy, giving control of content creation to the entire web community

  13. What do these have to do with Information Architecture? The everyday user is playing a bigger role in information architecture

  14. User IA...in Blogs, Wikis & RSS • Users can now decide—and to a certain extent— control how information is organized • Tags (user-defined labeling and hyperlinks) • Folksonomic (bottom-up) instead of taxonomic (top-down) organizational structures • Tagging has huge implications on search, browsing, and contextual linking • Publishers only create the bare bones structure for these sites, it is the duty of the users to populate them with content, and even organize them • Information retrieval (i.e. RSS) is now a dynamic and passive process. Based on user-defined choices (content subscriptions)

  15. User IA in action…

  16. Is there any room left for Professional IAs? Of Course! • Who will design the overarching navigation system? • Who will design the user interface? • Who is responsible for the wireframes and blueprints? • Who will define the metadata and organization scheme? • Who will perform the research to understand user behavior in order to create the bare bones platform for them to use?

  17. …So where do we go from here? It’s up to YOU!

  18. Thank You!

  19. References • Grossman, Lev. (2006, Dec 13). “Time’s Person of the Year: You”. TIME Magazine.http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html • Johnson, Steven. (2006, Dec 16). “It’s All About Us”. TIME Magazine.http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1570717,00.html • Morville, Peter and Louis Rosenfeld. (2007). Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. 3 ed. 3.O’Reilly Media, California. • O’Reilly, Tim. (2006, December 10). “Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again.” O’Reilly Media. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/web_20_compact.html • O'Reilly, Tim. (2005, September 30). “What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software.” O’Reilly Media.http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html • http://www.wikipedia.org • http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=US&ts_mode=country&lang=none

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