How “information architecture” is defined much too broadly, frames design in the wrong way, and suffers from infoprefixation.

Continue Reading: More Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture

Tagging is growing like wildfire on the Web. Maybe it can work on the desktop, too.

Continue Reading: Folksonomies in Mac OS X?

Jared and I are trying something new: a weekly (or so) podcast on an informal subject that’s making the rounds in the blogosphere. Here’s the first episode: Josh & Jared Show: Episode #1 In this episode we dig further into my so-called “War on Information Architecture”, and tease out some of the larger questions that […]

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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 […]

Continue Reading: Why Scale Matters in Tagging Systems

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

Continue Reading: Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture

Personal value precedes network value.

Continue Reading: The Del.icio.us Lesson

Tom Coates writes up how to build bubble-up folksonomies. It’s an interesting piece, sure to become more useful over time, as systems migrate toward bottoms-up instead of top-down.

Are you thinking of building something like this?

Round and round we go, where we’ll stop, nobody knows! The crazy game of tags gets crazier. What are Technorati tags really? And should we use them now that categories are being indexed in the same way? Jeff Jarvis has started another good conversation about tagging over at Buzzmachine. (He started another good conversation about […]

Continue Reading: Technorati Tags: What Are They Really?

Yesterday Clay Shirky published an amazing article called Ontologies are Overrated. Though he doesn’t mention Star Wars directly, his article has big implications for X-Wing Fighters and Land Speeders…

Continue Reading: X-Wing Fighters and Classification Systems

Mental models are often used to express what’s going on inside the head of users. The question is, what do they look like? I think that, if anything, they would be task-oriented. What do you think?

Continue Reading: Do you believe in Mental Models?