Category: Essays
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Boredom and the Art of Procrastination
Bored? You probably are. You are reading a blog after all. I bet you’re even supposed to be doing something else right now, something that someone is probably paying you to do. Reading my blog at work? Shame on you! (No, not really, keep reading!) I was sitting through yet another lecture at IUPUI and
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Originality Sin
Be yourself! Be different! Stand out! We artists are all guilty of some form of theft. However, it’s really not our fault. There are simply no original thoughts. You won’t often see me quote from a religious text. However, the following biblical musing accurately communicates my thoughts on the matter. “What has been will be
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Fear and the Pursuit of Dreams
We all have a dream, some of us two or three. When we were growing up, we dreamed of the day we’d be old enough to do whatever we wanted. We dreamed of being astronauts. We dreamed of meeting our superheroes, heroes, and celebrities. We idolized actors, musicians, and authors. We dreamed of being greater
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Academic: Indiana University Kokomo – Web 2.0 Strategy
Indiana University Kokomo Web 2.0 Strategy (Written in 2009) Case for Change Now more than ever current and prospective students are alive and thriving on the internet. They form their college choices based not only on what their advisors and high school counselors recommend, but they form opinions collectively online in a phenomenon known as
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Website Usability/Architecture Analysis: Indiana University Kokomo
Usability In Prioritizing Web Usability the authors state that you have two minutes to grab a potential customer’s attention. With that logic, I believe that the IU Kokomo website fails to understand that with an excessive amount of labels and links without clear definition of what falls under each category. There are inconsistencies in navigation,