week 9 : 25 may
readability and meaning

agenda

• Conference Notes ... Grading Blogs ... Extra Credit?
  
  
• More on Blogs and RSS
  • Corporate RSS Feeds:
    Apple, cNet, Miller-Nash
  • On corporate blogs:
    
    - Corporate weblogs
    - How do blogs help your company - mktg@msft, a personal weblog
    - Introducing people to business blogging - slides from East Bay IT Group, 4 May 2004
    - Getting ahead of the blog - ZDNet, 20 April 2004
  • Gates backs blogs for businesses - BBC, 21 May 2004
  • The virtues of chit-chat (plogs) - CIO Magazine, 15 May 2004
  • Using RSS for corporate communications (pdf)
  • What are webfeeds (rss) and why should you care?
  
  
  
• Reading Review
  
  
• In order to "read" ... you must be able to "access" the resource: a look at online accessibility
  1. What do we mean by accessibility ... or disability? [types]
  2. AIM Video
  3. UW Accessibility Guide
  4. What is web accessibility and Web accessibility and UK law - A List Apart
  5. Bobby - check a site
  6. W3 Validator and W3 CSS Validator - check a site
  7. Section 508
  8. Other resources:
     • Accessibility and Acrobat
     • Accessibility and Flash
     • Designing more usable web sites - tools from TRACE
     • WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative
     • Web AIM - Intro to Accessibility
  
  
  
• More examples of online storytelling:
  • Mega-Penny Project - numeracy
  • One Note Usage Scenario - Microsoft - product promotion (use MSIE)
  • Power of 10
  • Six Questions for Iran, a NYT multimedia feature accompanying Nicholas Kristof's column, "Nuts With Nukes"
  • Why the war in Iraq is still so violent, MSNBC Flash
  
  
  
• Team Time

assignments

• Finalize class deliverables. No reading assignments.