February 8, 2006: Surveys to Assess Search Experience A colleague asks: "I'm looking for a list of survey questions that can be used to help assess users'...
February 9, 2006: Spring 2006 Seminars: Tampa, Austin, Philadelphia These dates and locations are 98% firm for Steve Krug's and my spring 2006 seminars: ...
February 10, 2006: All about portals Always wondered what a portal really is? James Robertson does an excellent job[1] of clearly explaining the difference...
February 14, 2006: Yahoo! Design Pattern Library Launches Erin Malone[1] wants to spread the word that Yahoo!'s design patterns[2] are now available for...
February 16, 2006: Online Registration now available for spring 2006 seminars Yes, you can now register for both Steve Krug's and my spring 2006 seminars ...
February 19, 2006: Tight IA job market about to get tighter According to an article [1] in Reuters, "IBM to invest $1 bln for 'info-on-demand" practice'....
February 23, 2006: Design resources from the Design Council About Design [1] looks like a promising resource; the UK's Design Council has pulled together...
March 2, 2006: Developing a Participation Economy Good intentions aren't always good enough Back at the 2002 IA Summit, Christina Wodtke and I were sitting on...
March 06, 2006: PB3 After two days in Sydney [1], I'm in NYC for a week or so of semi-vacation, family obligations, minimal connectivity, and good eatin'. My...
March 13, 2006: Free consulting from Steve Krug From Steve Krug's site: "My publisher, Peachpit, is sponsoring a contest to promote 'Don't Make Me Think,' [1]...
March 21, 2006: Lovely History Graphics Dan Roam [1] recently pointed me to HistoryShots [2], which creates and sells "history-related informational graphics...
March 24, 2006: Vancouver-bound This morning I'll be heading to lovely Vancouver for the seventh ASIS&T IA Summit [1]. (I still can't believe we've gotten...
March 29, 2006: From consulting to products and services I'm back from Vancouver, and naturally I'm biased, but it was perhaps the best IA Summit [1] yet....
April 3, 2006: In Tampa next week Just a quick reminder that I'll be in Tampa, Florida to teach my enterprise IA seminar [1] on Tuesday, April 11. (Yes,...
April 20, 2006: Happy hour in Austin, TX Steve Krug and I will be in Austin [1] to teach our seminars [2] on May 11 and 12. (Early registration deadline is...
April 21, 2006: Latest development on the UX publishing front Finally! I can formally announce that Rosenfeld Media [1] is publishing Donna Maurer's book on...
May 3, 2006: Siderean mashes up entity extraction and faceted classification Here's a smart idea: Siderean [1] is improving how faceted navigation [2] works...
May 16, 2006: Philadelphia Happy Hour, June 1 Todd Warfel and his friends at Messagefirst [1] are sponsoring our Philadelphia happy hour the night after my...
June 5, 2006: Three months back/ahead Hi all, apologies for the recent paucity of Bloug postings. I'm finally done with my spring travels which started in...
June 9, 2006: Search analytics book site is up and running For some months, Rich Wiggins and I have been chipping away at our book currently titled "Search...
June 12, 2006: IA Summer Institute in Seattle This is good to see: the University of Washington's iSchool [1] and the IAI [2] are co-sponsoring a five-day...
June 13, 2006: Metadata survey Ron Daniel of Taxonomy Strategies [1] and Seth Earley of Earley & Associates [2] are running another metadata survey [3]....
June 16, 2006: The Rolling Content Inventory Interesting back-and-forth about content inventories last month (can you tell I'm behind?) between Leisa Reichelt...
June 19, 2006: Tentative Fall Seminar Dates Steve Krug and I are about 90% sure that these will be the dates and venues for our fall seminars (Steve's on web...
June 21, 2006: Another forthcoming Rosenfeld Media book Spotted this on the Rosenfeld Media announcements blog [1]: "Another signing: Indi Young will write a...
June 26, 2006: Fall 2006 seminars in Chicago, Washington DC, Seattle Registration is now officially open [1] for Steve Krug's and my fall seminar series....
June 28, 2006: Where IA Research and Practice Meet In the latest issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (could the...
June 29, 2006: Is there such thing as a "middle torso"? We've all heard of the "long tail" when it comes to search queries, and we can all imagine what the...
June 30, 2006: The History of the Button Bill DeRouchey, information architect and all-around nice guy from Portland, Oregon, has just launched a blog [1] to...
July 1, 2006: Interviews It's kind of a motley collection, but here goes: * Jon Udell and I have a long conversation that meanders from information ...