Saturday, June 30, 2007

Modules

The primary objective of all RSS modules is to extend the basic XML schema established for more robust syndication of content. This inherently allows for more diverse, yet standardized, transactions without modifying the core RSS specification.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Free implementation

Free (GNU GPL) implementation of social bookmarking tools exists, see Connotea from Nature Journal's Software Group.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Employment

Losing one's employment as a consequence of personal blog commentary about the place of employment has become so commonplace that there is now an informal verb for the event: "dooced". The word dooce originates from the pseudonym of Heather Armstrong, who lost her job after writing satirical accounts of her place of employment on her personal blog. In general, attempts at hiding the blogger's name and/or the place of employment in anonymity have proved ineffective at protecting the blogger.[28] Employees who blog about elements of their place of employment raise the issue of employee branding, since their activities can begin to affect the brand recognition of their employer.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Standards

Many formal standards and other technical specifications define the operation of different aspects of the World Wide Web, the Internet, and computer information exchange. Many of the documents are the work of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), headed by Berners-Lee, but some are produced by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and other organizations.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

Monday, June 18, 2007

Tag Clouds in the Media

A website featuring tag clouds and image clouds, chainofthoughts.com was recently highlighted on the BBC website [1] following the Virginia Tech massacre in an article discussing privacy and online mourning. The website featured was used as a place of semi-anonymous mourning, where users could upload images of their school and, using tag clouds, send their condolences.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_clouds

Friday, June 15, 2007

Multidisciplinary requirements

Web site design crosses multiple disciplines of information systems, information technology and communication design. The website is an information system whose components are sometimes classified as front-end and back-end. The observable content (e.g page layout, user interface, graphics, text, audio) is known as the front-end. The back-end comprises the organization and efficiency of the source code, invisible scripted functions, and the server-side components that process the output from the front-end. Depending on the size of a Web development project, it may be carried out by a multi-skilled individual (sometimes called a web master), or a project manager may oversee collaborative design between group members with specialized skills.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_design