i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

This hilarious 2 minute video entitled "How to Report the News" is a satirical piece looking at the structure of news on TV. The video is in the format of a 2 minute news story but rather than present an actual piece of news each element of the news spot is replaced with its abstracted element.  The video is a metadata view at the predictable composition of the news.  The video's creator has done an excellent job of marking up typical news videos into an almost "microformat" of sorts.

 http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/11/10/twitter-goes-json-only-with-one-api-more-to-come/

Twitter has gone JSON only for one of its APIs. And the blogosphere is buzz with activity that this is the start of transition for Twitter to go JSON only from XML/JSON. 

As someone who has formal training in graphic design and experience working in the field with an eclectic mix of clients, I strongly believe in the importance of content, structure AND presentation. While I agree that there are times when presentation gets in the way of being able to understand the content, I have seen cases where the opposite is also true, and I believe that they must work together in order to communicate effectively and assist in information retrieval. 

GMO salmon is under review for FDA approval.  This news has given rise to the classic debates over food labeling and the system for governing it.

Strategic Content Management - Jonathan Kahn

The Deep Web (also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, dark Web or the hidden Web) refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines.