Quiet here at Bloug lately; just completed a busy two weeks that included moving the family back to Michigan, short trips to both coasts, and filing our tax...
May 1, 2005: IA in Chile IA may be struggling in Germany, but the Chileans are moving ahead. AI Chile (Arquitectura de Informacion) recently launched,...
May 3, 2005: Updated Enterprise IA Roadmap I've finally found a little time to update my Enterprise IA Roadmap. (The first version dates to August, 2003)....
May 4, 2005: Boston Happy Hour--May 12 Steve Krug and I will be hosting a happy hour next Thursday evening (5/12) after my seminar and we hope you'll join us....
May 10, 2005: Google Acquires nForm Well, not exactly, at least not yet, but they ought to at least hire nForm to implement this great idea from nForm's Gene...
May 18, 2005: Another Enterprise Roadmap James Melzer has developed an impressive roadmap for Enterprise Content Management in Context (268Kb PDF). After...
May 19, 2005: Experimenting with Tagging Do you use del.icio.us? And are you interested in enterprise information architecture? Then consider tagging your...
May 22, 2005: IAI Retreat in New York Metro Area I missed out on the first IAI Retreat, held in Asilomar, California, which people are still talking about...
May 23, 2005: Righteous Griping on Enterprise Search Peter van Dijck and I participated in the Enterprise Search Summit last week in NYC. We both came away...
March 23, 2005: IA Summit 2006 It's never too early to mark your calendar for the IA Summit. This one will take place in lovely Vancouver, BC, Canada, March...
May 24, 2005: How Many of Us? A colleague from Joe knows writes: "Hi Lou: "I have a simple--but not easy--task ahead of me. I'm trying to quantify the...
May 26, 2005: Taxonomy Experts Seems like I get asked for names of taxonomy specialists frequently, so I thought I'd just publicize my list here on Bloug. *...
May 27, 2005: Denver This Time Yep, another enterprise IA seminar (in Denver, 9am-5pm, June 2), followed by another everyone's-invited happy hour (at the...
June 5, 2005: Moving up the Food Chain I have this fantasy that in about ten or twenty years, companies will hire "information guys" as senior managers just...
June 7, 2005: Information Architecture Columns Great to see that Digital Web magazine is running a regular IA column, "Information Architecture for the...
Jun 20, 2005: Fall Seminars: Washington, Chicago, Seattle I'll have the details soon, but figured I should get the word out about dates and locations for...
My apologies; the October 20-21 dates are for Seattle. I should have typed: * Washington, DC: September 15 (Lou), September 16 (Steve) * Chicago, IL:...
July 15, 2005: Search Experts: Who? What? After a bit of an inadvertent summer break, it's time to get back to blogging... Back in May, I shared my shortlist...
July 19, 2005: (No) UX Gurus In a response to my recent blog entry regarding search experts, James Robertson changed the subject a bit, wondering "who are the...
July 22, 2005: IA-Friendly Events and More It's summer cleaning time for my "to blog" folder; some of these might belong on your radar: * Taxonomy Community...
July 27, 2005: IA of Sound Greg Phillips writes: "I'm an IA in Los Angeles and have recently been offered an interesting position involving a voice-enabled...
July 28, 2005: Quote of the Day "A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un a flot" (or "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy"). -- Max Weinrich,...
July 29, 2005: Search Log Analysis and the Long Tail As Vilfredo Pareto, Mr. 80/20, might have predicted, a site's search queries can be universally displayed...
August 2, 2005: Mixed News from Germany James Kalbach summarizes the recent German IA Summit in the latest issue of Boxes and Arrows. Turnout was good--more...
August 4, 2005: Another QotD Steve Arnold, in the latest CMS Watch: "The truth is that nothing associated with locating information is cheap, easy, or fast."...
August 18, 2005: Researching Search Log Analysis Based on my recent posting, it might not come as a huge surprise that I'm co-authoring (with Rich Wiggins) a...
August 24, 2005: Survey on Search, Metadata, and Taxonomy Practices Ron Daniel of Taxonomy Strategies and Seth Earley of Seth Earley & Associates are running...
August 25, 2005: Social Tools as Shared Interest Syndicators Found myself in a Brooklyn café this morning with Michael Angeles. I love talking with Michael,...
August 30, 2005: Do Not Force, Obligate, Regulate, or Require... Nice short piece by James Robertson on "losing the language of enforcement" that centralized...