Similar logos

I found it interesting that there are several logos similar...

Like previous blog 37 signals's logo vs Sony walkman logo (It was an old logo since I was young I had known that)



37 signals vs. Sony






NJIT VS. Hyatt

Reflection on growth of blog

To be a professional writer or online- writer is not easy because it requires abundant social knowledge, sentimental emotion, variable intuition and more courage. In other words, he/she is a kind of artist. For me to become that stage, hum… I never thought about that. But upon my competency I can achieve an ordinary level as an “interest-oriented” blogger.

As far as I’ve seen my professor’s blog and my classmates’ blogs, Catherine, one of I think is the best on blog that what I need to force to improve is my technical writing. Based on better technical writing, the precondition must be that I got to enhance the skill of reading & realizing the meanings behind some of the sentences, words and pictures. It is embarrassed situation if a guy told me a joke which made everyone laughed out loud except me in bewilderment condition.

Since Blogger can do more function than I thought, in visual aspect, it is a breakthrough if I comprehensively use CSS and visual HTML combined with inside. I think YouTube is a fantastic idea that sometimes put inside to illustrate and show something interesting and informative. According to human organization behavior we know human beings still catch entertainment with… “Dynamic images”, on the other hand, we say people prefer something moving rather than not moving. CSS and HTML have the ability to get this goal done.

At present, I have to appreciate my professor Ken that many many information and knowledge were taught by him and his materials. Podcasting, PDF, Websites, Comments… wow, lots of resource can be grabbed. However, grab those to become my own knowledge is one thing, continue to grab much more knowledge after this course is more important to me. Of course, I’ll keep doing on the Blogger to become a better blogger.

Online writing but collaborative

Writing usually is done by yourself and be revised by instructor and rewrite again by yourself. Now a collaborative writing has appeared and there is one called Writeboard created by 37 signal web company. As you had viewed the article made by someone then Writeboard has such a nice function that let you revise the inappropriate sentences, bad grammar, new viewpoints if you want. Actually, this idea has bloomed that it may thank to the time of Web 2.0 which has been coming. Corresponding to collaborative power of Web2.0, problems proposed by people have more chance to be solved by intelligent individuals who has seen the posted problems. Moreover, same to Writeboard, an article cannot be perfect just written one time; it has to revise again and agian just like design software has to debug again and again. Otherwise, you can face the problem yourself but may need more time and money to get things done.

Another benefit from Web 2.0 is "forum". A online forum combines together valuable ideas, knowledge, and information. Usually people who have common interest will be seeing each other, knowing each other from a forum due to same desire of goal, such as TV games, sports, gambling, etc. Using your hand to write your question on a forum, later on, a respond will be shown to your question. Ironically, some information has to be dug in there which clever guys only want to appear on the specific forum. Furthermore, software engineers could use collaborative tools to get jobs done. We know writing huge software programming cannot be done by one person, it needs to gather a bunch of genius engineers to collaborate together, perhaps one engineer wrote this part of program then posted on the wrting tools on the Intranet/ internet; other engineers began to revise the programming, debug it then posted it back to let the original software programmer to rearrange it. Software programming used in collaborative writing tool is common but also we can see scientists used collaborative writing to discuss research with their colleagues or same field characteristic work done by other scientists of other countries. However, thanks to google that it saves lots of time to find people's need in a short time.

I personally have few experience on collaborative writing, probably I am not a writer, I am a electrical engineer. In my opinion, journalists will need collaborative writing during their work and software engineers all need that while they are creating troubling computer language. For me, I need collaborative design for drawing with AutoCad but writing.

The software, Campfire, made by 37 signal is impressive to me. I downloaded and tried, then I found that it is useful to group meeting, especially in transferring big files. We know transferring big file need time and patience; the faster the speed , the more successful achievement is. Nevertheless, it is still few people know about this software.

Coordination Editor for "Web Writing"

Designing effective visuals must have clear purpose to fit audience stomach. To think what audience needs? Why they need that information? Further, selecting suitable visual in technical description is much important to audience to let them realize effectively.The keys between a press release and web writing must be different in contrast in many ways. First, we have to discover what components should be listed in web writing.

• Focus on Interest of Levels
• Images might be better than text
• Methodology for shortening summary into a short informative title

Those three highlights are particular ways to distinguish from press release writing.

In my way of writing product info in web writing, I filter who are my audience first, and then create an informative title and a simple summary. To differ from press release, photographs, videos and realistic drawings are required. Those are visuals that can show figure structure of patterns to let readers know product substantially. A link from the title is necessary for further information if readers have more interests and want to explore in detail. Hence, parts of a product have to be shown individually, such as blueprints, pictures or drawing of individual parts, exploded views, cutaway views, which gave readers comprehensive information in exploring a product. For example, when we go to IKEA, first we do is to take a catalog book, then see what we are interested in, then look for the stuff we need. But we don’t know how to assemble individual part, that’s why a exploded views of stuff is needed. It has to be exploded because it shows proper relationship to each component to get combined together.
Exploded examples shows below:

For different age of audience, it is hard to design a web writing all together and suit all age of audience. Like teenagers and adults, they all have PSP gadget. In web writing with only text, it exists difficulty to let young audience to understand the procedure as Game Boot, however, adults can easily know how to do by only text writing. Moreover, to suit young people level, a video or a flash designed manual is needed for them to get understood easily. See the example in Youtube:

The differences between web writing and ordinary writing are

• phraseology
• rhetoric

Let's take a look at New York Times, a great deal of uncommen vocabularies are being used in articles. I don't say it wants to express high level of knowledge to show how they are good at vacabularies, but I would say this is the deference of writing between web and ordinary.

Elements of FIVE- audience’s task, components, descriptions visuals and organization, are main subject in creating a design of web writing. External elements of THREE- interests, images, and methodology are secondary thoughts to get better in web writing. Combine those all together, a nice done work will be shown easily.

ebook's bookmarking

Basically thousands of websites are not worth of us to surf every single day, We simplify and narrow down the scope to navigate what we are interested in. Folksonomy, which basically imitated taxonomy in scientific ways, is generated by the person who intended to tag consuming information on URL. It is interesting about the definition of folksonomy. Wikipedia seems to have defined folksonomy as that the people (cool crowd) with Web 2.0 tagging tools are able to require as something that can describe their tool. Tags can be created by personal idea to make categories on their own and tool make possible to search the tag which may be created by special definition. That makes much easier for favorite Folksonomy fans to grab information/ objects in a short time. The value is knowing who and what specifically is being tagged by individual.

Social bookmarking is best used in a tool as del.iciu.us. As we take a glance of the tool, gladly, we saw related word have shown up when we typed a quite different word at all. For example, I put "webdesign", I not only found topics about webdesign, but also found what I am interested in another topics/key word like CSS, photoshop, and the tags contain really helpful website for what I want. Although, social bookmarking is done by personal preferences; without preferences we may never find exactly what we need for specific information. Gathing everyone's power is powerful; that is my thought. Social bookmarking perhaps can be views as peer review in the community of content as the best.

Simply, making tags for title is not hard; finding good reference is much more valuable when tags are related to. Community of social bookmarking is a general concepts of categorization on web resource. I tagged the sites as I demanded and as everyone demaneded if the "saved number" is considerable or I think they are valuable for using in the future.

It is not easy to say there is great benefit on using social bookmarking on del.icio.us. However, Internet is a tremedous resources which greatly combines every single person who made effort on the Internet. Students and Professionals would feel strongly while they are using social bookmarking as a tool. It is like Google search engine. They are similiar in dataming that specific topics will be marked as tags will be done in the same way.



This is Adam on del.icio.us

And this is your choice if you add me in your favor




Blogger Social Bookmarking Tool

Flash Fulfill our life

Within pace getting more convenient in web tools of design, more various, beautiful, amazing web pages show us spectatular scenes to entertain us our life, especially the web tool of Flash.Amazing website provided as SIRE, first scene in the first page heavily drew our attention, also the sound effects. When I logged in, I thought I was in a horrible movie introducing website, then I fianlly found out it is about society issues based on Netherland, very impressive. I mean Flash has improved much as I thought than before I have touched.

Let's talk about SIRE's color and sound design. Because it is a site about children issues in society problem,so the site need to create very gloomy and murky, and that will reflect how dark side of issues which let audience think it is very horrible issues happening in Netherlands. Sound effect is pretty much done in dreadful creation, probably nbrave audience will turn it off as soon as possible.But it is designed as that because of the same reason of above. We know creepy sounds may happen in horror movies, but now we see this website also has the same creepy as we see in movies, that may impress audience whom are brave that they did not close off the page as soon as possible. How much do audience join into the website? six or more clicks for every issue is done in this Flash. Every click will lead hazy text to clear text, that gave audience joyment of participation. This is actually a important role with Flash to let audience take participation. Flash will make vivid to webpage; others don't.Flash do moving effect; others can do but not impressive. That is why Flash is getting rage these days.

At last, I don't say any bad design of this site except creepy sound, because I did a experiment that I sent this site to my female friends. 8 of 10 chose to close it off when they hear the creepy sound, probably it is bad design to put the music on the first page. Maybe to put behind is better thought.

What is web 2.0?

Perhaps you have already heard of some characteristics of web 2.0, such as Blog, OpenAPIs, RSS. Do you think Flickr or Youtube these concepts websites can be represented Web 2.0? Actually, it’s NOT.

Let’s imagine how Web 2.0 consist of. The first part---RIA (Rich Internet Application), such as Flash, Ajax and etc. network application technologies are under RIA control in which can enhance users’ IE experience, easily operate from desktop interface to IE, just like, the most typical function---support drag in webpages.

Second, SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), a structure which can provide open sources and communicate with different ISP’s network applications to coordinate in operation. To be a member of Web 2.0, such as Feeds, RSS, Web Services, Mash-up, actually Mash-up, we use it every day. For example, Yahoo or Google provides API interface function module, which can directly result in a serious of Yahoo Map or Google Earth, a third network service, being operated.

What is Web 2.0 doing now today is to build up people as Internet of the starting point. From knowledge point of view, Web 1.0 task was using human knowledge through the power of commerce that can be put on Internet. Web 2.0 task uses these knowledge through every user’s power of desire of seeking knowledge, to coordinate works, organize all the knowledge put together; during the processes, Web 2.0 still deepens knowledge continuously and creates new sparks of new ideas.

From technical view, Web 2.0 is more customized, more efficient at work, such as Ajax technology, Google Map/ Gamil can interact with each other during operating.
What I believe is Web 2.0 is a network provided from a core of human beings, and it provides more convenient net tools to users, stimulate to provide contents, result from the tracks which users had left organizing clues of exploring, providing related web services, creating brand new values and expectation, and that is the way of Web 2.0