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standard and ugly too.
http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html
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Wired (paper). Notice how the numbers in the photos in the
ToC of this paper magazine let one identify the category of
the photo, and to, in effect, caption the photo. Photos enhance
a ToC but they also alter the layout. Wired cleverly combines
both here.
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Business 2000 (paper). Except for width this could be a home
page to a website. Unlike a website though, there is no simple
banner or primary navigation bar. So navigaiton in later pages
would have to be different.
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Adobe magazine (paper): A classic paper magazine with a classic
ToC.
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PC Magazine 1998 (paper). Is this paper or web? Note the
use of colored backgrounds in tables and table rows, the three
column layout, and the list of pointers.
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PC Magazine 1999 (paper). A new face chang. Note the use
of small images off to the side, the downplaying of page numbers,
the more complete listing of contents rather than maor articles.
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PC Magazine 2000 (paper). A small departure from the web in
having images between tables. But this is just an invitation
to create this online. Page numbers are once again more explicit
and sections are more boxed than in 1999.
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Topic List
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About.com Here
is the classic About.com. Note the square layout and grey
shading. The navigation structure of About is different than
Yahoo in not having the sub-categories hot. Hence they are
not underlined.
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IBM's includes major topics and a list of shortcuts that
cut to high frequency items low down in the hierarchy
http://www.ibm.com/products/
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Yahoo, of course
Yahoo.com
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Salon - the one to beat http://www.salon.com/
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Discover -- big bucks works with TV program http://www.discover.com
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PC World http://www.pcworld.com/
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Interactive week -- generic http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/
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Another Ziff Davis mag http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/
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ZDnet the aggregator http://www.zdnet.com/
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Time Life -- lost its brand http://www.timelife.com/
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Newsweek -- you be the judge http://www.newsweek.com/
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Business 2.0 http://www.business2.com
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Wired http://www.wired.com
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Hotwired http://hotwired.lycos.com/
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Online
Newspapers
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NYT - classic - kept it's style http://www.nyt.com/
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FT- great, but lots of navigation http://www.ft.com/
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La Times -- a la mode http://www.latimes.com/
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Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com
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Slate - mag or newspaper? http://slate.msn.com/Default.asp
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About.com - simple nice, search
results
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AltaVista: note additional tabs by category search
results
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IBM - blue, not categories on left but rather browsable areas
that are high demand -- for recovery rather than continuing
the search search
results
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Microsoft: note the search within results tab, also metadata
of summary and category search
results
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Google -- good results, overly simple, but cached search
results
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Miriam Webster: looks like a TOC http://www.m-w.com/map.htm
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Macromedia - stylish
effective http://www.macromedia.com/sitemap/
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MS Embedded systems http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsCE/embedded/highlights/sitemap.asp
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A very stylish paper display which in effect is a gallery.
The central snake establishes the gallery identity and the
remaining images surround that snake the way a collection
of cages might surround a central exhibit in a 'snake' museum.
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Classic gallery dislaying with uniformly sized images and
text. Very clean. Adobe.
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Definition:
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Webster's Entry: genre
Pronunciation: 'zhþn-ra,
'zhþn-; 'zhþnr; 'jþn-ra
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French, kind, gender -- more
at GENDER
Date: 1770
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a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition
characterized by a particular style, form, or content
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KIND, SORT
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painting that depicts scenes or events from everyday
life usually realistically
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Genres in the Arts
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Some writing genres:
- Horror
- Humor
- Mystery/Crime Fiction
- Poetry
- Romance
- Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Some Film genres:
- Action/adventure
[non- suspense thriller]
- Animation
- Comedy/dramedy
[non-satire, non-romantic comedy]
- Crime/mystery
- Documentary
- Drama [non-comedy]
- Horror
- Musical
- Romantic Comedy
- Satire/black comedy
- Science Fiction/fantasy
- Thriller/suspense
[non-mainstream action/adventure]
- Western
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Some Music genres:
- Blues,
- Country,
- Film,
- Television
- Radio Music,
- Folk Music,
- Gospel,
- Jazz,
- Opera,
- Musical Comedy,
- Choral Music,
- Plainchant,
- Popular Music (General),
- Popular Song,
- Rap/Hip-Hop,
- Rock.
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Discussion of Genre
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Bazerman, Charles. (1988). Shaping written knowledge:
the genre and activity of the experimental article in
science. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.
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Freadman, Anne. (1987) "Anyone for Tennis?" The Place
of Genre in Learning: Current Debates, ed. Ian Reid (Geelong:
Deakin University, CSLE) 91-124. Repr. (condensed) 1994,
in Genre and the New Rhetoric, ed. Aviva Freedman and
Peter Medway (London: Taylor & Francis).
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Freedman, Aviva. (1993). "Show and Tell? The Role of
Explicit Teaching in the Learning of New Genres." Research
in the Teaching of English 27 : 222-251.
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Swales, John. (1990). Genre Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
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Miller, Carolyn. (9084). "Genre as Social Action." Quarterly
Journal of Speech 70: 151-167.
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Here is an article on genre as it is starting to be thought
about in the literary world. http://www.stthomasu.ca/~hunt/sfu/origin.htm
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Gabo is the nickname of Alberto
Gabriel Mendoza, a 19 year old graphic artist who designed
some extraordinary flash sites that spawned a whole genre
of copycats. His new site has been under construction for
over a year now, and there is no archive of his old one that
caused so much excitement. The orginal url is now his construction
site: www.gabocorp.com.
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