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Information Design—Week 1, Assignment 1

Hello, my name is Jon Bourne. I live in Fairbanks, Alaska, with my wife and daughter. I work at the local daily newspaper managing the company Web site. I also own and run a local Web design company.

I attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks for two years in the Computer Science program pursuing a bachelor’s degree. I was hired out of my sophomore year by the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks’ local daily newspaper, where I have worked for four years as the New Media Manager.

I desire to further my education to better serve my employer as well as to learn more about emerging technologies and make myself more marketable to other potential employers. Through this course—and ultimately the Interactive Media Design program here at AIO—I hope to pursue that goal.

My favorite “information tool” would have to be Firefox. There is no application in the world that can convey more information than a Web browser. Also, I love its extensibility and consequential flexibility, as well as the fact that it is open-source software and has a great rendering engine.

A few of my interests:

  • spending time with my family;
  • designing and developing Web sites—
    • Web standards,
    • XHTML,
    • CSS,
    • PHP,
    • MySQL,
    • Ruby on Rails;
  • playing electric or acoustic guitar.

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