It’s been over a month since the IA Summit, and I’m only now getting a chance to write about the experience. I took notes from many of the sessions I attended, but I’ll try to link to available videos or slides when possible. An opening keynote: Joshua Prince-Ramus. I... Read more
On Saturday May 20, the local chapter of DC information architects got together to recap topics that were addressed and discussed at the 2006 IA Summit. This was a long time coming for me. I’ve been meaning to attend these local meetings, but life has, of course, gotten in... Read more
John Battelle recently asked readers to come up with a tagline for the next Web 2.0 conference. This will be the third such conference.
Year One included the tagline "The Web Is a Platform" to which Battelle remarks,
"That felt spot... Read more
On Tuesday, Thomas Vander Wal, the person who coined the concept "folksonomy," came by my summer grad school class with a talk entitled "Designing for the Personal InfoCloud."
Thomas talked about a variety of topics, but some of the things that struck... Read more
As an American, I am profoundly aware that I am living in a "me" culture, one that took off during Generation X. Here are a few examples of cultural/technical changes, partially influenced by this "me" philosophy:
What is the benefit of folksonomy? I believe there are two important elements to this relatively new phenomenon:
The tagging phenomenon that exists for purveyors of information has many promising advantages for people. Unfortunately, by handing the power of creating personal taxonomies and classification to the end user, will we be better off?
Certainly one of the beautiful things about tagging is that it...
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