{"id":593,"date":"2003-02-01T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-01T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/?p=366"},"modified":"2003-02-01T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-01T02:30:00","slug":"366-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/593","title":{"rendered":"Imported from MozDawg without title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The right sidebar on the <a href=\"http:\/\/aifia.org\/\">AIFIA pages<\/a> reads in part, &#8220;The emergence of Information Architecture (IA) as a formal discipline has gathered key areas of expertise together to provide a framework for the rational design of content-rich sites.&#8221; to which I say &#8230; uhhh &#8230; yaa! There I found this neatly formulated list: <a href=\"http:\/\/aifia.org\/pg\/25_theses.php\">25 Theses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nMy peregrinations took me through an interesting thickening of cyberspace:<br \/>\n<b>*<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomuse.net\/\">InfoMuse.net<\/a>, by PhD candidate Katrina (champignon) Spurgin, who quotes Wilson, &#8220;More to the point, it is a situation-specific product of the interaction between a user and a document&#8221;. This moved me to write, in a note to her, &#8220;When I was in R&#038;D tech_docs, I justified a lot of my time by pointing out that data was practically worthless if it was un-discoverable; that my making it accessible transformed it into information &#8230; no manager I ever met could trump that! *grin*&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>*<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memekitchen.com\/\">memekitchen<\/a>, with the motto &#8220;<i>baking fresh think since 1967<\/i>&#8220;, quotes  I M Pei, &#8220;It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You can&#8217;t work in the abstract&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>*<\/b> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sims.berkeley.edu\/~buckland\/thing.html\">Information as Thing<\/a>&#8220;, a preprint of an article published in the Journal of the American Society of Information Science, begins, &#8220;Three meanings of &#8220;information&#8221; are distinguished: &#8220;Information-as-process&#8221;; &#8220;information-as-knowledge&#8221;; and &#8220;information-as-thing&#8221;, the attributive use of &#8220;information&#8221; to denote things regarded as informative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd all of this while downloading a nifty new icon editor &#8230; ain&#8217;t the web an amazing phenom, though?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right sidebar on the AIFIA pages reads in part, &#8220;The emergence of Information Architecture (IA) as a formal discipline<a href=\"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/593\" class=\"searchmore\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}