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Merholz posts his prelimenary ideas on IA co-created with users: “The spectrum goes from implicit, meaning derived from user behavior but not consciously created by the user, to explicit, meaning consciously created by the user.”
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Gene Smith “on social information architecture […] the different ways users can add structural value to websites”.
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Veen looks back at more than ten years of Hotwired. A nice way to consider the history of the web; how far have we really come?
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MacManus uses the freshly launched PeopleAggregator to briefly talk about what an open social network system should be.
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Another golden oldie, thought I should save this one. Peter discusses his interests that have broadened from IA to UX and at the same time focussed on findability. The UX honeycomb is a nice thinking-tool.
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Ziade notes that users are slow to adopt new services. This has to do with their reluctance to learn a new interface, satisficing on existing features and non-interest in new tech.
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D. Keith Robinson bemoans the current state of web design. He thinks we should focus less on tech (agreed), that designers should continuously educate themselves (agreed), design cannot succeed without a proper understanding of what should be communicated