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 and ends? Continue Reading…

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? I’m not sure what I think about this yet.(tags: standardsrssiconsdesign)
• This is what a Honda sounds like See, this is so much better than the Big Ad, IMHO . An amazing choir imitates various car related sounds. Pretty bloody amazing (although, i have to say, i had to double check whether it was Honda or Mazda when I was writing this description(tags: advertisinghondasoundviral)
• Poke Oooh, these guys look to be doing some interesting work (see also below)(tags: agencyuklondoninspiration)
• MotherLondon (by Poke) I’m into mapping at the moment, due to a project I’m working on. So, this has taken my fancy (although, I can’t help asking… why?) i’m not certain but this sure looks like an emormous amazing interactive map of their offices and people and stuff(tags: pokemapsquicktime)
• WordPress Plugins Database I plan to play with plugins in the weeks to come. Look out.(tags: wordpressBlogsplugins)
• Outré Gallery – Home I was here on Saturday almost ready to hand over some cash. I always baulk at the last minute when it comes to buying art. I think I’d like to be more confident/blase about it. Ultimately, I’d love to have a house covered with all kinds of art.(tags: “pop art” “low brow” gallerysydneyart)
• Information Architecture (What Is) Nothing ground breaking here, but I like to collect definitions/explanations of IA. I think its in the hope that one day I’ll be able to explain it to my parents.contains interesting examples and definitons of IA(tags: informationarchitecture)
• Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? Discussed below. (tags: tagsfolksonomy)
• Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags Also discussed below.(tags: tagfolksonomyontology)

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 level they identify two activities that could be useful in improving tagging as a navigational system including:’educating users to add “better” tags and improving the systems to allow “better” tags to be added’.

They’ve also referenced Clay Shirky a few times, so I think I’ll have to go investigate what he has to say on the matter!

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 I was reading this book I didn’t expect to be writing about it (or liking it for that matter)… Continue Reading…