Apple’s online WWDC Keynote 2021 is introducing some new features for iPad OS 15, including privacy features (private relay) and live translation including from your Photo library. Pretty neat. Notes …
What is etymology and folk-etymology?
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Through old texts and comparison with other languages, etymologists reconstruct the history of words – when they entered a language, from …
What is a backronym? and its relationship to the word Acronym
A backronym or bacronym is a type of acronym that begins as an ordinary word, and is later interpreted as an acronym. The word “backronym” is a portmanteau of back …
IA Summit 06 Redux
According to recent academic and business research, there is an enormous wave of people on its way to adulthood that may very well take us by surprise. And while many …
An introduction article on Taxonomies
Liz Edols has written a great introductory article on what exactly are Taxonomies? …’structures that provide a way of classifying things – living organisms, products, books – into a series …
Understanding current changes on the Web
Jakob Nielsen has written an informative entry to Alertbox this week titled, Reviving Advanced Hypertext, the column comments on some of the new features on the web today, including explicit …
Assumed knowledge & the next big challenge: learning French
Being new to the UK and also the european community, I am finding that my short stay here so far, has introduced both a huge list of immediate challenges, such …
IAWIKI Sydney Meet on Wednesday
Thank you to the 20 or so people who came to the IA meet in Sydney organised by Eric from IAWiki. It was great to meet with fellow peers both …
Typography Outline and Shape affects word recognition
This Microsoft paper within their Typography and Cleartype section titled, The science of word recognition, comments on evidence within cognitive psychology that indicates we use the letters within words to …
Movement & Meaning presentation and Lavanotation introduction
My visit to Sussex University included attending the presentation of PhD student from UTS Lian Loke, titled, Movement & Meaning: A Study of iToy. The presentation was extremely interesting and …
The Use of Faceted Classification
Heidi Adkisson has posted on the Use of Faceted Classification in Web Design Practices which examines how e-commerce sites use faceted classification to help people find products. A series of …
User and community driven vocabularies
Michael Angeles has posted a blog post describing user and community driven vocabularies. The processes discussed includes centralising vocabularies and using requests to either push and/or pull information.
Global Information Architecture
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 …
W. Daniel Hillis view of the Knowledge Web (Aristotle)
Edge.org has published an interesting article on the 2000 prescient paper by W. Daniel Hillis titled, “Aristotle”, in which he proposes “The Knowledge Web”. The 2000 paper, covers a similar …
Language, Biology, and the Mind by Gary Marcus
I came across an interesting scientific interview with Gary Marcus, in Edge.org titled, Language, Biology, and the Mind. The interview looks at the interesting process of language acquisition, cognitive development, …