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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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...
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...
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 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 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 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 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...
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...
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 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 12, 2006: Everyday IA Flickr Group You might want to visit (and join) the new Flickr group [1] called Everyday Information Architecture. The group...
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 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...
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 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 ...
