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Back from Florida.  Had a great time!

Off to visit friends in St. Petersburg, Florida for the weekend.  Yay!

McKinsey and Failing Airlines. McKinsey was the central “consultant” at Swissair during the several years that led to the destruction of the Swiss airline. Their “work” cost Swissair about $60 million dollars — while it lost all profits, revenues, and assets. McKinsey is also well-known for having preached at Enron, and presented that company as… Continue reading McKinsey and Failing Airlines

Our Favorite Books: Recommendations from the Staff of B&A. The Boxes and Arrows staff book list is cool. Each with a concise review. [ia/ – information architecture news]

Genuine artificial text: True, you could use the “Insert Corporate Mumbo Jumbo” extension on the Dreamweaver Exchange, but this is high-quality lorem-ipsum we're talking about here, folks, baked fresh daily!  [via Jeffrey Zeldman] [JD on MX]

In Other Words, The “Heavenly Jukebox”.  Sterling's decade-ahead-of-its-time librarian talk “Bruce Sterling's 1992 speech to the Library Information Technology Association is eerily prescient — the “Information Economy” is bankrupt, and it's taking the public domain down with it. 'Ladies and gentlemen, there's a problem with showing Mr Franklin the door. The problem is that Mr… Continue reading In Other Words, The “Heavenly Jukebox”

An Innovative Experiment!.  Even in its currently somewhat foggy state, little mind bombs are going off in my head over Jon Udell's Library Services Experiment. “Jenny's comment about my library adventure got me thinking. In particular, I was curious about the Innovative system used both by her library and mine. For North America, I found… Continue reading An Innovative Experiment!

Jon's Radio – Taxonomy Creation and Maintenance. Quote: “These things are, as I said, always trickier than you expect. Content management systems try to make reasonable assumptions about the display of time-ordered and categorized data, but when the relationships between those two evolve, as they inevitably do, assumptions break down. Tools that would make it… Continue reading Jon's Radio – Taxonomy Creation and Maintenance

Ten taxonomy myths. Quote: “Taxonomies have recently emerged from the quiet backwaters of biology, book indexing, and library science into the corporate limelight. They are supposed to be the silver bullets that will help users find the needle in the intranet haystack, reduce “friction” in electronic commerce, facilitate scientific research, and promote global collaboration. But… Continue reading Ten taxonomy myths

Ten Tips on Building Communities of Practice. Quote: “First, we have identified 10 actions items to create a successful Community of Practice. There are 10 fundamental questions you need to ask before starting a CoP” Comment:via George Siemens – excellent [Serious Instructional Technology]