Lou Rosenfeld has posted a really interesting blog post on some of his experience regarding Enterprise IA and certain differences in the way culture, language and business models affect the …
What is the value of a corporate taxonomy
OVUM have recently published a interesting research content management report titled, The corporate taxonomy: creating a new order by Eric Woods. The report is available online or as a PDF …
The World Summit on the Information Society
The World Summit on the Information Society – Geneva 2003 is the first of two world gatherings by Head of States, Executive heads from United Nations agencies, industry leaders, national …
Irene Pepperberg on cognitive and communitive abilities of birds
There is also a great article by Irene Pepperberg on the cognitive and communicative abilities of animals. The article makes reference to a MIT project called, Rover@Home which was a …
Rob Kling’s introduction to What is social informatics?
Rob Kling, who has sadly passed away recently, and worked at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, wrote a thorough and interesting introductory journal document on …
A quote from Umberto Eco’s 1996 lecture, From Internet to Gutenberg
Even if it were true that today visual communication overwhelms written communication, the problem is not to oppose written to visual communication. The problem is how to improve both. Reference: …
The Use vs. Intention of aggregated tools
An interesting article by Warren Harrison from IEEE titled, Whose Information Is It Anyway?, comments on a presentation from ICSE 2003 (the International Conference on Software Engineering) which looked at …
The Best of CHI-Web & SigIA-l discussions
I thought I posted this in March, but whilst searching the archives I couldn’t find it, so here it is… UIWeb have collated a useful list containing the best of …
Screen captures of on-screen Help
Here is an interesting gallery comparing the different types of on-screen Help by software-applications on the Mac, both for Mac OS9 and OS X.
IEEE reveals Google’s secret cluster architecture
Ever wanted to know just how Google, one of the world most visited search engines, handles the load of hundred of thousands of requests without affecting processing performance of their …
Google News Australia goes Beta
The new Google News for Australia’s version of Google.com has gone Beta, with the latest summary of news headlines from Australia, although at first glance it still shows a lot …
The 1968 paper by Licklider and Taylor, The Computer as a Communication Device
Here is a copy of the interesting 1968 paper by J.C.R. Licklider and Robert Taylor titled, The Computer as a Communication Device. This landmark 1968 essay foresaw many future computer …
Information Architecture meets Usability
An interesting interview in O’Reilly Net of Lou Rosenfeld, an information architecture consultant and coauthor of O’Reilly’s Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition and Steve Krug a …
Phonetically searching Audio
Technology Review posts an interesting article by John Harney titled, The Grammar of Sound which looks at a new software by a company called Fast-Talk Communications that allows a new …
KartOO visual meta-search engine
Simon Rutgers from PeopleSoft forwarded me this link of the KartOO metasearch engine which renders results as a visual interface. The algorithm of KartOO launches the query to a set …