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Week two (July 18-22): blog assignment

Deadline:

Monday, July 25 (no later than 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. BST)

Task:

A 300 to 500 word blog post.

Please stick to the word limit -- use visuals in place of words if you're having trouble with this limit.

For more detailed guidelines on the 'Weekly blog assignment' visit:

http://p2pu.org/en/groups/knight-mozilla-learning-lab/content/weekly-blog-assignment/

With this blog we’re looking for you to engage with the weekly lectures – in part, this is to demonstrate your understanding of the lectures and to describe how the lessons apply to your final project idea.

How to submit:

Post a link to your blog post below as a comment.

Task Discussion


  • Lucas Cioffi   July 24, 2011, 11:59 p.m.

    Get the "People Part" Right.

  • Cody Shotwell   July 24, 2011, 10:47 p.m.

    Here is a blog post: Of hackers and 'Streams' Sketches. My RSS category feed seems to be misbehaving. Jacob, I'll try to get that going someday!

  • manuel pinto   July 24, 2011, 8:52 p.m.

    Hi there, unfortunately the weekend is over. Lot of fun working on my post. There we go:

     

     
    wish you guys a good start on the following week! Best, manuel!
  • Nicola Hughes   July 24, 2011, 8:38 p.m.

    Ok, here is my blog post which refers to two posts neither of which are from or about the webinars (ooops!) but it does show how I've come up with my proposal for the lab and it's creation has been inspired by what we've been doing to far. I call it The Big Picture. 

    I filmed my collague's rant about online news:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcTu6jWZ09Y

    And my idea for how his problems might be addressed:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEM3YUTxX-c

    It's all in the blog post. Video is still being processed so please give it a while.

    Any feedback would be much appreciated and any developers who might want to help me build a prototype will be even more welcome!

  • Stijn Debrouwere   July 24, 2011, 8:14 p.m.

    Hiya, my blogpost: A culture of coders. It's a rumination on John Resig's advice to make your app and developer culture as friendly as possible to newbie hackers, with some practical pointers on how we can actually do that.

    Earlier in the week, I also posted Machine Learning Fairy Dust, prompted by looking over pretty much all the MoJo proposals and seeing that so many of them are reliant on machine learning or language and sentiment analysis. While it's fairly critical, I hope nobody takes it as a slight — it's just a general observation, not a jab at any specific project of any of you guys. And it's just my opinion anyway.

    Cheers,
    Stijn

  • Charlie Pinder   July 24, 2011, 6:57 p.m.

    Hiya, this week I've mostly been thinking about users, re-rethinking my project and being very pleasantly distracted by Chis Heilmann's links :). 

    Here is my post: Week 2: Mind The User Gap. 500 bananas exactly :D.

  • Nicole Cifani   July 24, 2011, 6:20 p.m.

    Hey everyone, 

    Here's my post for week 2. 

    The RSS feed can be found at the following:

    http://www.nicolecifani.com/category/moznewslab/

     

    I'm quite excited about the idea and would love any feedback you might have the time to give. Feedback helped quite a bit with last weeks' assignment, and actually got me going in a totally new direction!

    Hope you're having a lovely weekend (+ staying cool out there),

    Nicole

  • Laurian Gridinoc   July 24, 2011, 5:43 p.m.

    Here's my post for week 2: "Beyond the Surface"  http://bit.ly/rrR1GI

    (unrelated with this week, I've also posted on how I sketched my idea http://bitly.com/oEBEMO )

  • Amy Zerba   July 24, 2011, 11:55 a.m.

    This week I channeled my inner young person to develop the start of a news tool. I hope that you find it creative, or at the very least entertaining. I've been enjoying reading all the great ideas and reflections posted here. What an inspiring group.

    Channeling my inner-Millennial to develop an idea

  • Bello David   July 24, 2011, 11:26 a.m.

    Here is my blog post for Week 2: 

    http://dhbello.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/html5-jquery-my-idea-–-week-2/

  • John Tynan   July 24, 2011, 9:37 a.m.

    Here is my Week 2 blog post.  It comes in well over 500 words, but it's exactly as I meant it to be.. a JQuery-docs inspired tutorial coupled with an attempt to begin displelling Heilmann's "pixie dust" and moving towards an understanding of popcorn.js:

    Towards an understanding of popcorn.js

    Graders: please feel free to read the first 500 words and decide for yourself if this captures the spirit of this intent.

    Developers: please feel free to comment and respond to my questions at the very end.

  • Juan Gonzalez   July 24, 2011, 1:43 a.m.

    In a new medium, I finally cross the line from "strategy" to "visual design" and start to consider the technical implications of building this idea using the various technologies we heard about during the week.   I spent a few hours building an actual demo, but it was very much worth it!

  • Pippin   July 27, 2011, 12:41 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Juan Gonzalez   July 24, 2011, 1:43 a.m.

    Great idea to do a video Juan. You may have heard of this, but check out Jing as a free video screen-capture software. http://www.techsmith.com/download/jing/

     

    The more you know. ;)

  • Tathagata Dasgupta   July 24, 2011, 12:38 a.m.

    Final Assignment idea pitch, clickable proto-tits with balsamiq mockup images and html (NO javascript), and infographic round up of MozNewsLab week2 ... DONE. Saturday? GONE.

  • Miguel Angel García Ramírez   July 23, 2011, 5:38 p.m.

    New things learned and and useful every week, thanks

    Here is my post

    Have a great weekend

  • Nicholas Doiron   July 23, 2011, 4:05 p.m.
    I posted on my blog about using Google+, HTML5, jQuery, and jQuery competitor Dojo on the web. http://mapadelsur.blogspot.com/2011/07/of-reporters-readers-and-browsers.html
  • Cole Gillespie   July 23, 2011, 1:59 p.m.

    my post for this week has arrived. it is geared toward my project to date. inside i share my mojo final project (alpha release) code and try to introduce some basic javascript to all you non developers in the class. I hope it helps.

  • Shaun McWhinnie   July 23, 2011, 6:33 a.m.

    On time! Yay. 

    http://howzitgaun.com/?p=64

    It'd be cool to see more people hanging out at the IRC chat room, there was some good discussions  yesterday, would be good to hear more people's input. 

     

  • Trina Chiasson   July 22, 2011, 8:11 p.m.

    Post #2: Regional Access for the Geekless

    Musings on web accessibility, where I'm from, and how to construct my app so that it meets the needs of different audiences.

  • Dan Whaley   July 22, 2011, 7:29 p.m.

    Here's my post for the week...

    MVP, Sliderocket and First Ink!

    Also... I'd love feedback on the draft of my Sliderocket Presentation!

    Dan

  • Kate Hudson   July 26, 2011, 10:46 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Dan Whaley   July 22, 2011, 7:29 p.m.

    Hey Dan,

    I had trouble seeing your Sliderocket presentation – I got an error message saying the presentation wasn't found.

    Kate

  • Nikki Usher   July 27, 2011, 11:37 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Kate Hudson   July 26, 2011, 10:46 p.m.

    Ditto. Was (Am) looking forward to it!

  • Chris Keller   July 22, 2011, 6:37 p.m.

    I don't really feel I hit the mark with this week's assignment: no real difference in mindset when it comes to open-web, open standards and a journalist. 

    I have been sitting on this since Wednesday night. It does me no good to let it linger over the weekend and think about making it better when I could be working on my final project or learning.

    May the gurus of grades be kind.

    Now on to careful editing of 256 characters. Have a good weekend all.

    Chris K. 

    UPDATE - Obviously the link above is my assignment for the week as it relates to my thoughts about the lecture, but I did quite a bit of sketching and thinking over the weekend about my final project: nwsmkr - Visualizing the connections between the people the news is about.

  • Alex Samur   July 22, 2011, 8:45 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Chris Keller   July 22, 2011, 6:37 p.m.

    Thanks Chris -- we'll be providing feedback on blog post 1 over the next few days...hopefully that will provide you some guidance for the next two posts...