Drama & ducks at the IA Summit

I’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip to Memphis, TN for this year’s Information Architecture Summit (aka, IA Summit).  What a time!  I saw some Memphis, visited Graceland, saw the Peabody Ducks who live inside the Peabody Hotel…and experienced the IA Summit for the 1st time.   It was an action-packed weekend full of great [...]

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A lunch with Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld

The relatively famous authors of the book Information Architecture, Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld, came to my school today to be recognized as outstanding alumni (along with two other librarians from SI).  About 30 students attended the lunch meeting, and after the alumni gave talks about their backgrounds, we got to split into small groups [...]

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The future of browsing

Recently two student groups at the U of Michigan School of Information (Social Computing at the School of Information and the Student Organization for Computer-Human Interaction) held a browser ‘design jam.’  The point is to redesign, rethink, and envision the browser of the future.  The jam is a 3-part series, and the results will be [...]

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IDEA08 was a blast and a ball

October 7th and 8th, I attended the IDEA conference in Chicago. It was put on by the Information Architecture Institute and held at the impressive Harold Washington Library. The ornate gargoyle-like building decoration reminded me of the ghostbusters, one of my favorite childhood movies, and the ghostbusters theme song kept running through my [...]

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IDEA 08

I was notified of an opportunity to win a *scholarship* to the IDEA 08 conference in Chi-town.  Oh, excitement…I sent off a paragraph to the IAI folks explaining how this conference could augment my learnings.  Yes, I would even skip class and stay in a [hopefully clean] hostel.
(There was a time when a few friends [...]

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