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Posted by shawnday on 26 January 2007
Posted in: Blogging, Info Architecture, Technology. Leave a Comment

alexking.gifI took the plunge on my research blog and upgraded it from 2.05 –> 2.1 today. So far so good. The other blog is quite a bit sim­pler and uses far fewer plug-ins, of which I remain trep­id­a­tious, but we shall see how it goes.

On the path of search­ing out any hurdles that oth­ers had run into, I came across a series of blog entries by <a href=“http://alexking.org/” target=_blank”>Alex King when he re-invented his main blog last year. These posts are a won­der­ful case study of his sys­tem­atic approach to usab­il­ity and user exper­i­ence with his own blog. he is well known in the blog­ging com­munity for his theme con­test and his web­site which relies on Word­Press for its cms is impress­ively exten­ded through a few other pieces such as his forum man­age­ment, but all nicely integ­rated together. I point out this post as a great resource for word­press­ers or word­press­ers to be that may like to be reminded of those usab­il­ity things to remain aware of.

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    Shawn Day is an entrepreneur, digital historian, economist and blender of the aesthetic and the informative. Raised in Canada, Shawn now works with the Digital Humanities Observatory, a project of the Royal Irish Academy, to leverage Ireland's participation in the emerging practise of digital humanities scholarship. He lectures in Social Computing and the Philosophy of Technology.

    His own research explores the social and economic circumstances of the nineteenth century retail liquor trade and it's impact on family. He applies digital, spatial and social network analysis to the study of the relationships between credit, respectability, and order in the Victorian community. Recent articles have examined the social dimensions of the Victorian public mental hospital using GIS and statistical modeling tools. Shawn has been involved in a number of successful and innovative digital humanities projects throughout Canada. Most recently he has worked with large manuscript census databases in the 1871/1891 census project (University of Guelph). He is a team member of the national TAPoR text analysis portal project, the Canadian Network for Economic History and the Network for Canadian History and the Environment (NiCHE - UWO).

    Shawn has blended his background in management economics with an entrepreneurial ethos to found a number of successful software development ventures in Canada and find a means to leverage this in the academic arena.

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