Last Wednesday I announced my XBox 360 Wireless Controller giveaway. It ends TOMORROW. You have one day left to enter to win! To win, all you have to do is to comment on a blog post. I’ll choose one commenter randomly to send the controller to. Go here for details… (I’m doing this to get […]

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Why and how scale in social tagging systems can leverage the Wisdom of Crowds (much like Google does with links) to make the incorrect tags less influential than certain Aristotelians would have us believe. Ok, so I got into hot water for my Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture post… But I’m completely […]

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Dear Readers, Comment on this post to win an XBox 360 wireless controller. ($40 value) Here’s a quick way to get a Holiday gift for your loved one: simply place a comment with your real name here on this post (and your real email address…which nobody but me can see…so I can notify you if […]

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In which I argue that the field of Information Architecture doesn’t fit anymore.

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I read an interesting quote from this short bio of Douglas Merrill, VP of Engineering at Google: There are no lasting technical solutions to social problems, and most interesting problems are social problems. “The particular tools and systems we give [people] yield certain kinds of problems,” he says. Merrill sees it as his job to […]

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Email, chat, and other messaging tools are converging…and most people don’t seem to mind. So it seems that Danah Boyd got into the same trouble I got into when I said that social networks were killing email. She wrote a whole post explaining why she claims email is dead: “Do young people have email accounts? […]

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Designing for groups will become a primary survival technique in our networked world… I was recently setting up a chat session with someone and the inevitable question came up: what chat service to use? You want to chat on Skype?, I was asked. Or iChat? Do you have an GTalk handle? The answer was a […]

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The changes that Digg made to its promotion algorithm are coming back to haunt them. Diggers are pushing back, and in doing so are highlighting the difficult challenges of social design. I chronicled Digg’s Design Dilemma back in September. At that point, after yet another claim of gaming had been made against them, Digg decided […]

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Tim Berners-Lee: “People have, since it started, complained about the fact that there is junk on the web. And as a universal medium, of course, it is important that the web itself doesn’t try to decide what is publishable. The way quality works on the web is through links. It works because reputable writers make […]

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Faithful reader Taddeus Szewczyk points us to an interesting site called Social Design, run by John Emerson. John says he’s still working on his definition of “social design”, but it includes projects that are: are affordable and sustainable are made of renewable materials use energy from renewable sources and increase energy efficiency reduce consumption and […]

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