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...
September 12, 2006: Wherefore art thou, oh MMSWatch? Perplexed friend writes: "I'm searching/surfing like crazy to find a central resource for a list of ...
September 18, 2006: New book--Communicating Design So nice to come home from a trip and find Dan Brown's [1] Communicating Design [2] buried under a pile of...
September 20, 2006: Whole lotta IA survey results now available For the new edition of the polar bear book (almost done!), Peter Morville and I conducted five...
September 22, 2006: DC happy hour Thursday, 9/28 Tony Byrne's CMS Watch [1] is sponsoring a UX happy hour in conjunction with Steve Krug's and my Silver...
September 22, 2006: Seattle seminar deadline Woops. Time is flying by way too quickly. It's fall. We're already running the heat at night. My cat's fur is...
September 27, 2006: Fresh presentation on search analytics Gave this talk [1] (2.1 Mb PPT) on search analytics [2] a half hour ago at Webcontent.gov's Web...
October 06, 2006: Finding contacts in unfamiliar cities Here's a feature I'd love to see in social networking apps like LinkedIn [1]: say you're headed out...
October 7, 2006: Polar Bear v3.0: what's new Peter Morville and I have received a few questions recently from faculty hoping to use the 3rd edition of...
October 9, 2006: The evolution of metadata at the BBC The Bulletin of ASIS&T published a nice piece [1] on the evolution of metadata creation and usage at the...
October 12, 2006: WWYD #1 I'm trying out a new idea on Bloug; a semi-regular feature called "WWYD" (for "What Would You Do?"). People send me difficult...
October 13, 2006: Take a survey, help Marti, win $$$ UC Berkeley's Marti Hearst is always doing interesting stuff. [1] Right now, she and Emilia Stoica are...
October 24, 2006: Brooklyn-bound MJ, Iris, and I are moving to Brooklyn this winter, likely in February or March. I've been privileged to have lived in Ann...
October 24, 2006: Why we need UXnet, #18 Keith Instone's predicament. [1] Lack of a shared UX events calendar and no coordination between UX-related...
October 27, 2006: Bloug commenting fixed D'oh. Just as I go on a blogging-happy jag, Bloug's comments facility suddenly goes down. Well, we're back up and...
October 30, 2006: Thank you, Tim Just a quick note to express my appreciation to O'Reilly Media for trying their best to stuff Pandora (Pandata?) back into...
October 31, 2006: Old belongs On Adam Greenfield's recent criticisms of the IA community... [1] I admire Adam, not only for his broad and obvious intellect,...
November 1, 2006: Chilean IA retreat Wish I could make it back to Chile; this event (in Spanish [1]; English translation [2]), taking place in Santa Cruz...
November 1, 2006: Giving a quick free talk on search analytics One more quick event announcement, this for one that I will attend: my co-author, Rich...
November 3, 2006: What would you ask? The first "WWYD?" (What would you do?) [1] seems to have been a success. To refresh you, I took a crack at a gnarly IA...
November 8, 2006: Enter usability gripe here Leisa Reichelt tipped me off to one of the many interesting activities associated with the World Usability Day...
November 13, 2006: Free information architecture consulting Does that grab your attention? Because that's what it is: I'm soliciting tough IA questions that...