Day One Links:
1) Introduction to WebU
None, really
2) Metroland West Media Group Overview
(large list included in binder)
http://www.wheels.ca
The ABC news citizen journalism site, I-Caught is at
http://ugv.abcnews.go.com/
The Your Three Words compilation video is at:
http://tinyurl.com/353qzn
The ABC news citizen journalism site, I-Caught is at
http://ugv.abcnews.go.com/
The Your Three Words compilation video is at:
http://tinyurl.com/353qzn
3) Digital Media 101
Some tools to measure web traffic:
http://www.alexa.com
Allows you to compare traffic and reach of up to five sites at a time complete with graphics. Very cool, but observe caution - their analysis is based on a limited sample.
http://www.comscore.com
Commercial service offering proprietary information.
http://www.blogpulse.com/index
The Neilsen company's effort at measuring the 'blogosphere', with links to the rest of their web metrics
http://www.alexa.com
Allows you to compare traffic and reach of up to five sites at a time complete with graphics. Very cool, but observe caution - their analysis is based on a limited sample.
http://www.comscore.com
Commercial service offering proprietary information.
http://www.blogpulse.com/index
The Neilsen company's effort at measuring the 'blogosphere', with links to the rest of their web metrics
4) Web Gone Wild
http://www.twittervision.com
Mashup of twitter posts and world map
http://www.archive.org/index
The Internet Archives - I used this to find the 1996 Globe and Mail home page. Use their "Wayback Machine" to find nearly any old web page.
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.vampirefreaks.coms
Some social networking sites. There are many others like Google's Orkut (very popular in South and Latin America) and Club Penguin ( http://www.clubpenguin.com/) a social networking site for kids that Disney just bought for $300 million.
http://hamilton.craigslist.org/
http://www.kijiji.ca/
From the "their eating our lunch" department
http://www.whateverlife.com
Ashley's million dollar website, providing MySpace templates and bling to teenage girls around the world. Turn your sound down before going here.
http://del.icio.us/bdunphy/
http://www.flickr.com/
More of the social side of the net - my bookmarks on del.icio.us (navigate using the tags on the right) and Flickr the wildly successful photo sharing site
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Getting a little geeky here, but this is a place that allows you to build your own mashups - combining data streams from two (or more) different locations.
Mashup of twitter posts and world map
http://www.archive.org/index
The Internet Archives - I used this to find the 1996 Globe and Mail home page. Use their "Wayback Machine" to find nearly any old web page.
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.vampirefreaks.coms
Some social networking sites. There are many others like Google's Orkut (very popular in South and Latin America) and Club Penguin ( http://www.clubpenguin.com/) a social networking site for kids that Disney just bought for $300 million.
http://hamilton.craigslist.org/
http://www.kijiji.ca/
From the "their eating our lunch" department
http://www.whateverlife.com
Ashley's million dollar website, providing MySpace templates and bling to teenage girls around the world. Turn your sound down before going here.
http://del.icio.us/bdunphy/
http://www.flickr.com/
More of the social side of the net - my bookmarks on del.icio.us (navigate using the tags on the right) and Flickr the wildly successful photo sharing site
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Getting a little geeky here, but this is a place that allows you to build your own mashups - combining data streams from two (or more) different locations.
