Author Archives: lara

I’ve had enough of the del.icio.us link feeds that are clut­ter­ing up my rss feed read­er. People who used to post once or twice a week because they had some­thing inter­est­ing to say are now drop­ping 2, 3, or more links into my read­er every­day.  I don’t need to fol­low their wan­der­ings around the web. … 

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I start­ed Alex Wright’s Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages a cou­ple of days ago. I have a num­ber of oth­er books/learning projects on my plate at the moment but I real­ly want to get to this book while the dis­cus­sions of it are still rag­ing. So I thought I’d put on the bed­side table … 

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This week­end I was sit­ting with my friend Kathy Gill at a house warm­ing par­ty and we got onto the sub­ject of the evo­lu­tion of markup lan­guages. Aside from mak­ing most of the geeks in the vicin­i­ty cringe at “work talk” on a Saturday, we were run­ning at top speed through the jun­gle of acronyms … 

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Recently I wrote about Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put it on the Web. In sec­tion 4 he intro­duces three ques­tions and four prin­ci­ples that pro­vide use­ful guid­ance when imple­ment­ing nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems for infor­ma­tion archi­tec­tures that rely on faceted clas­si­fi­ca­tion. The three ques­tions step through some basic ques­tions that you need to … 

Continue read­ing “TQR — Denton’s Three Questions and Four Principles and an Observation of My Own.”

Steven Hannah’s Sorting Out Card Sorting isn’t real­ly about card sort­ing. It’s an exam­ple of using a par­tic­u­lar method­oloy to do aca­d­e­m­ic lit­er­a­ture review and then a pro­pos­al for cre­at­ing a tool that can be used to aug­ment and extend the knowl­edge dis­cov­ered dur­ing the review. But even if the phras­es ground­ed the­o­ry and constant … 

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