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Vale Nam June Paik


Ah, flash backs to my undergraduate years when I think of Paik.
Best known, to me at least, for his work with video art, and for being a collaborator with John Cage and the Fluxus movement, I learned today that he’s also apparently responsible for the term ‘information superhighway’.
I wonder if he’s proud of that?
Vale Nam [...]

conference lust


aah, i’m a total conference geek. Yes, I know that most of the time they’re completely disappointing and you wish you’d never wasted the time and money, but every now and then - conference lust strikes.
so, who’s going to these conferences and will pack me in their suitcase?

Delineating Information Architecture and Content Strategy


It seems to me that in many cases, the line between development of a content strategy and and information architecture is mighty blurry. I’m wondering if there is some kind of accepted process that everyone is following that I need to know about? Are there rules about who does what and where the crossover starts [...]

links for 30 January 2006


Here’s some of the pages I’ve tagged on Del.icio.us today. This is one of those automatic posting things (which, obviously, I’ve annotated!) … not sure if I like it or not. What do you think?

Feed Icons - Help establish the new standard I applaud the idea of establishing standards… but is this establishing or imposing? [...]

everyone’s an IA (cont …)


funny how things work out.
I was just thinking about the potential messiness of tags (for myself and my projects), when I happen to the Del.icio.us homepage (which i rarely see), and happen upon this: Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?
An interesting read - they talk about the problems with tagging and some potential solutions. At the highest [...]

the true history of the kelly gang (peter carey)


i’ve never been in a book club (i was too busy with uni when they were all the rage.. there was *one* bookclub meeting that I went to, but that ended up being a book swap and red wine binging session!), and its been a long time since I’ve written a book review. And, when [...]

everyone’s an IA these days…


i’ve been looking at my RSS feeds and my Delicious links today, trying to get them cleaned up so that they’ll look presentable in some kind of format on my blog, and its made me think some more about the information architecture in the wild.
much has been written about how tagging and feed subscription and [...]

hey! you’re not supposed to be looking yet…


Two things have been happening that have made me finally decide that its time to hop into the land ‘o’ blog.
Firstly, I spend so much of my time evangelising the ‘architecture of participation’ that it seems either completely fraudulent or utterly lame that I’m not really participating myself. (yes, I know, there are papers that [...]