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 ...
July 9, 2006: A favor for Donna? Donna Maurer is seeking IA-knowledgeable volunteers [1] to participate in a card sort exercise. She'll use the results in...
July 10, 2006: Search log samples Another request for book help: Rich Wiggins and I would like to assemble a small collection of sample search logs for our...
June 11, 2006: Using locational context to beef up search queries Here's another thought about search. Search logs often tell us not just what a user...
July 12, 2006: Everyday IA Flickr Group You might want to visit (and join) the new Flickr group [1] called Everyday Information Architecture. The group...
July 17, 2006: Letting the cat out of the wrong bag Rich Wiggins, my co-author, just blogged [1] about his extreme displeasure with a certain publisher [2]...
July 24, 2006: Quick survey on IA software Got a few minutes? Then how about taking a survey [1] to describe the software that helps you with your information...
July 27, 2006: Another quick survey... for IA Educators Do you teach information architecture in an academic setting? If so, please take our survey [1] for...
August 02, 2006: IAs and Formal Education Surveys surveys surveys... When will this madness end? Our latest survey [1]--on the impact of formal education on...
August 3, 2006: For government employees Work for the government? Interested in IA and usability stuff? Then two things for you to know: 1. Steve Krug and...
August 7, 2006: IA conference in Australia Eric Scheid of Sydney's Ironclad Networks [1] just announced the first Oz-IA/2006 Conference & Retreat [2]...
August 8, 2006: UX Search Roll Just experimenting with Yahoo!'s new Search Builder service [1], which allows you to create a custom search roll (yes, just...
August 17, 2006: Never thought of this before One of my clients wants me to meet with a group of stakeholders to discuss their organization's IA strategy. My...
August 29, 2006: IA Summit CFP Wow, IA Summit #8 [1] is already percolating (Las Vegas, March 22-26). Here's the CFP: "The Information Architecture Summit is...
September 1, 2006: Guidelines for the use of search query data I imagine that, by now, you've heard of the recent AOL search data fiasco [1]. AOL researchers...