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User IA Blogs, RSS, Wiki's INF 385e Larry Archer 2 Oct 2008
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User IABlogs, RSS, Wiki'sINF 385e
Larry Archer
2 Oct 2008
User IA
● Blogs – RSS
● Wiki's
Examples and issues in each
weblog
●Individual posts●Reverse chronological order●Personal, news/commentary, subject oriented
weblogJorn Barger, 1997.
“we blog”
blogPeter Merholz, 1999.
Blogging Tools
IA in Blogs
● Organization● Navigation● Labeling● Search
examples ...
IA Issues in Blogs
● user control in varying levels
– Content
– Style, layout
● (lack of) user awareness of IA
RSS● Rich Site Summary
(originally RDF Site Summary)
● XML● Blog posts in
machine readable form
RSS Readers
● What humans use to read RSS● Read many blogs at once● Web-based or desktop apps
IA Issues in RSS
● Original context lost– No style, no navigation
● experience depends on the tool● Providing choices for the user
– Many feeds for a single blog:Category feeds, w/ comments or not, etc.
Wiki's
● “Wiki Wiki Web”– Wiki == fast (Hawaiian)
– Wiki Wiki == really fast
● Anyone can contribute● Easy to use
Wiki IA
Examples
Wikipedia
IA Issues in Wiki's
● Wiki owner has some control– constraints
– conventions
– guidelines
● Users control content (and structure)
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