The purpose of this study is to create a classification system for Canada’s digital media industry and shed light on the industry’s size and scope. Join us, won't you?
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Sean Ward and talk about the Pixel to Product research study, social media, and how we can leverage digital tools to create change within government.
Check it out, and let me know what you think via a comment!
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking to Soniya Monga from Techvibes about the Pixel to Product research study. We spoke about the current state of available data, what our project will accomplish, as well as where the digital media industry is headed.
Check it out, and let me know what you think via a comment!
Big thanks to Soniya, Karim and Jon for helping put this together!
What will our taxonomy look like as a finished product? Because the digital media industry did not grow as a singular entity, but rather as a plethora of roles and positions across a spectrum, there is not going to be consistency in the relationships between jobs, titles, and relationships. Hierarchical systems, like a biological taxonomy, are clean and easy to visualize, but they don’t make sense for this project. We want a faceted classification system, wherein elements can belong to more than one category within the system, and the system as a whole can be rearranged to reflect different possible relationships. Putting an “object” in two places is allowed in the digital world, but it makes for difficult at-a-glance visualization.
Right now, assuming we don’t have any programming help, we’re thinking about using MediaWiki with hyperlinks between layers, with the preferred terms and synonyms built right onto the pages so that they can be quickly searched. We’re also looking at the possibilities available through thebrain.com, a program that helps you map relationships in a matrix, rather than a hierarchy (as we’re all used to, since computer folders insist you do this).
We are finalizing the interview questions this week, and can’t wait to start the data collection!
I’m not at all surprised to see jQuery leading the charge. Their framework is in use in over 1 million websites, and is used by companies such as Dell, Google and Mozilla. jQuery users have developed hundreds, if not thousandsofplugins to extend jQuery’s base functionality and have one of the most vibrant online communities dedicated to supporting, promoting and helping other jQuery users.
Which Javascript framework do you like, and why? Add your 2 kilobytes below!
At the very least, it shows that developers are shifting away from some of the more popular commercial tools such as Dreamweaver and Coda, and performing their coding tasks in old-school editors such as Vim (I remember using Vim years ago when I started to learn HTML) and Emacs.
While the sampling size is incredibly small (19 respondents), this type of data is invaluable when it comes to helping software companies understand the features users are looking for in an editor.
So, back to you, dear reader. Which editor do you like, and why?
(As an aside, we tried to locate a website for the BURP editor, but we couldn’t find one. )
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