Collection of IA related research. Peter Morville spent some time in the library this summer looking for research related to information architecture. He just published a list of freely available papers, categorized by broad topics like navigation and search. Useful stuff, but heavy reading at times. [ia/ blogs]
Month: September 2004
Preparing for the Holiday Shopping Season
Useit.Com: Preparing for the Holiday Shopping Season. Many B2C sites make a disproportionate share of their profits in Q4. If the holiday shopping season is important to your company, the following seven last-chance tips can help you get your site in shape for the holidays while there's still time. [Tomalak's Realm]
Force alone can't beat terror, Rumsfeld says
Force alone can't beat terror, Rumsfeld says. WASHINGTON — Nearly three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, US officials are uncertain whether efforts to combat terrorism are reducing the pool of recruits for militant groups or appealing to moderates in the Islamic world, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld acknowledged yesterday. [Boston Globe —… Continue reading Force alone can't beat terror, Rumsfeld says
Military toll tops 1,000
Military toll tops 1,000. BAGHDAD — US military deaths in the Iraq campaign passed the 1,000 mark yesterday, with more than 800 of them during the stubborn insurgency that flared after the Americans brought down Saddam Hussein and President Bush declared major combat over. [Boston Globe — Front Page]
Usability / Workspace Quality
Usability / Workspace Quality. My Latest Article Software in the 1980s, when usability was “invented,” was all about computer-human interaction. A lot of software still is. But the Internet brings us a new kind of software: software that's about human-human interaction. When you're writing software that mediates between people, after you get the usability right,… Continue reading Usability / Workspace Quality
2nd Hurricane Deepens Wounds in Stricken Florida
2nd Hurricane Deepens Wounds in Stricken Florida. Millions were left without power and hundreds of thousands without ready access to gasoline, groceries or other daily staples. By FELICITY BARRINGER. [The New York Times > Home Page]
Users Trump Library Vendors Again!
Users Trump Library Vendors Again!. Everyone is (rightly) talking about Peter Rukavina's homegrown RSS feeds for what he has checked out from his library (and new DVDs). I am overjoyed to see this, but saddened to see that once again users are having to route around library services because we're not providing the service ourselves… Continue reading Users Trump Library Vendors Again!
The Digital Hoards
The Digital Hoards. We Are Becoming Digital Pack Rats “Personal computers — our jukeboxes, photo labs, accountants and film studios — are becoming the proverbial junk drawer, scattered with scads of must-have information. Sister devices such as digital cameras, MP3 players and digital video recorders overflow with often barely a bite of spare storage. The… Continue reading The Digital Hoards
'War and the American Presidency': Dire Conclusions
'War and the American Presidency': Dire Conclusions. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. fears that continual war is bringing about a resurgent imperial presidency. By KEVIN DRUM. [The New York Times > Books]
Advanced Taxonomy
Advanced Taxonomy. LaVern Prichard's Legal Technology News article Knowledge Management: Multi-Dimensional Knowledge explains how he made his LawMoose site more useful by shifting to a thesarus-based topic categorization system, instead of a conventional topic-subtopic system. Here's an excerpt: [I]n our thesaurus-powered legal knowledge collection, resources appear under as many topics as make sense without having… Continue reading Advanced Taxonomy