informal publishing
The idea could be summed up as: don't build a website. Do everything in your power to not focus on the structure of your information.
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Information Architecture for Effective Outreach and Communications [course]
I am offering a new course, Information Architecture for Effective Outreach and Communications at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at the University of Hong Kong.
Working with OpenData at the JMSC
As a consultant at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JSMC) at HKU, I've been able to see some of the interesting work being done with Open Data here in Hong Kong.
Connecting to ConnectedChina
I attended a presentation today by Irene Jay Liu, news editor for Thomson Reuters and project leader and editor for ConnectedChina. It was a great demonstration of the app, especially since there is so much to see in the app. It is difficult to understand all its potential unless you see someone using it or you spend a lot of time with it.
Evolving Information Architecture
Information Architecture is both a familiar and foreign concept to me. As a web developer, I followed lots of tips on how to structure information in a way to make it more useful. Being the kind of person who likes both systems and structure, its principles appealed to me immediately.
Republic, Lost and #Lesterland
I watched Lawrence Lessig's recent TED talk, in which he makes the argument about the corruption in the United States. I enjoyed it, because I love the ideas in the book. I'm not quite finished, but close. But the TED talk I found a little odd. Specifically, his introduction of this analogous place called Lesterland
the role of design in a website
Design is not as important as usability when it comes to web development.
What’s next for Open Government?
Anil Dash has a great post on the Knight Foundation blog called the end of the beginning: lessons from open government so far. In the post, he outlines that we've done a lot of thinking about what open government could mean, but that we haven't yet really got started, solving real problems and building real tools.
Equality
This is a piece I built a while back, inspired by infocamp SEA 2010 iframe oh no. I just discovered this is broken, or rather missing. I will try to…
“Very Serious People heard other Very Serious People citing the alleged finding”
Paul Krugman forms a nice response to a critique of his argument using an argument that Aristotle laid out years ago, when discussing Endoxa (Greek: ἔνδοξα), which is essentially means ‘commonly held beliefs’.