http://roychristopher.com/information-in-formation-an-interview-with-peter-morville I marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:27:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://roychristopher.com/information-in-formation-an-interview-with-peter-morville/comment-page-1#comment-5505 The Irony of the Archive | Roy Christopher Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:29:37 +0000 http://roychristopher.com/?p=148#comment-5505 [...] The same dilemma has plagued the online world of information since it started amassing and spreading across the globe. in 1994 Jerry Yang and David Filo created Yahoo! as a simple index of websites in an attempt to make things on the web findable. In the meantime, we’ve seen portals, search engines, user-driven encyclopedias and folksonomies all attempt to make things findable. [...] [...] The same dilemma has plagued the online world of information since it started amassing and spreading across the globe. in 1994 Jerry Yang and David Filo created Yahoo! as a simple index of websites in an attempt to make things on the web findable. In the meantime, we’ve seen portals, search engines, user-driven encyclopedias and folksonomies all attempt to make things findable. [...]

]]> http://roychristopher.com/information-in-formation-an-interview-with-peter-morville/comment-page-1#comment-2824 Justin Kistner Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:52:52 +0000 http://roychristopher.com/?p=148#comment-2824 IA is such a challenging discipline. Every successful web project depends on it, yet it is the least understood and most under utilized area in web development, well, analytics is close. I find it crazy to think about the generally agreed upon symbology used in the development of architectural plans, yet only a handful of people are developing this visual language and just about as many that understand it. I can’t think of many programmers that can. And, as you point out in this article, the landscape for our industry is changing faster than we can possibly systematize. IA is such a challenging discipline. Every successful web project depends on it, yet it is the least understood and most under utilized area in web development, well, analytics is close. I find it crazy to think about the generally agreed upon symbology used in the development of architectural plans, yet only a handful of people are developing this visual language and just about as many that understand it. I can’t think of many programmers that can. And, as you point out in this article, the landscape for our industry is changing faster than we can possibly systematize.

]]> http://roychristopher.com/information-in-formation-an-interview-with-peter-morville/comment-page-1#comment-2825 Mark Wieman Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:31:51 +0000 http://roychristopher.com/?p=148#comment-2825 Ambient Findability has been on my list for a while now. Sounds like it's time for me to get a copy. Peter's description of it here reminds me of a phrase I heard several years ago in business school. A nervous presenter botched the "location is everything" cliche and said "location is everywhere." So true. Ambient Findability has been on my list for a while now. Sounds like it’s time for me to get a copy. Peter’s description of it here reminds me of a phrase I heard several years ago in business school. A nervous presenter botched the “location is everything” cliche and said “location is everywhere.” So true.

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