Tag Archives: IA

What I’m reading 15 May 2015 through 18 May 2015

The Failed Promise of Deep Links — Backchannel — Medium – "Today, though, Web links are mostly navigation and footnotes. Instead of sharing linked trails of knowledge that we’ve blazed, we leave piles of data around that service providers mine for value." But we can turn it around. – (ia fedwiki hypertext design )
Silicon Valley Innovation: Stanford Law Student Crowdsources Her Graduation Speech – Wired Campus – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Not all that innovative, as commencement speeches tend to be formulaic anyway, and hardly inclusive with only 85 self-selected contributors. it does widen the available means of persuasion, a little. but it perhaps it's a choir preaching to a choir. I used to create a similar effect by grabbing lines of commonplaces from student themes to create an ur-theme that impressed a lot but said little. – (rhetoric hype )
Adblockers are immoral – No, they aren't. Ad hominem takes on a new meaning. Really, this is your best argument? A good reminder to reinstall that ad blocker you were thinking about. – (advertising rhetoric ad_hominem )
Audience Invoked vs Audience Addressed in Pinker’s The Sense of Style | David Durian – "Ultimately, it seems the case that, although the text does have mismatch issues between audience invoked and audience imagined, it has still proven to be a successful text, none the less. In terms of its status as "popular linguistics" text, it actually appears to conform pretty strongly to the genre conventions of that genre, at least, if earlier works such as Pinker's The Language Instinct and Tannen's You Just Don't Understand are used as a gauge for success. " – (rhetoric stylebook review linguistics )

Morgan’s pinboard for 3 Mar 2015 through 6 Mar 2015

Half an Hour: Design Elements in a Personal Learning Environment – the core design elements in the development of a personal learning architecture being developed in the National Research Council's Learning and Performance Support Systems program. – (ple design )
Demystifying the muse: 5 creativity myths you need to stop believing – Crew Blog – of course, It's in businesses interest to demystify. you can't commodify the mysterious. So, out with the old myths, in with the new. – (writing inspiration ideology )
Intertwingled Work – Greg Lloyd – An excellent post on intertwingledness in contexts. If pages/content are findable and addressable, they can be intertwingled – and it a matter of creating contexts that allow us to draw from that complexity to make meaning. Greg gives an apology for inline links, but, really, we don't need to apologize for that anymore. Let 'em eat cake. – (IA InfoDesign wikis intertwingled findability addressability )