The first portion of content presented as part of the IAInstitute's pre-conference workshop at the 2009 IA Summit in Memphis, TN. "Beyond Findability: Re-framing IA Strategy and Practice for Turbulent Times" http://iasummit.org/2009/program/pre-con/beyond-findability/
There were no "notes" for this one, so it doesn't have the long-format pdf, just the slides.
9. It’s all information -- just language ...
Information that explains ...
... the information that contains ...
... the information that is contained
Just so we’re clear ...
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10. The power of syntax
Eats Shoots and Leaves
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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25. Maison À Bordeaux: Rem Koolhaas
quot;You see here two systems colliding... the systems of the kind of
platonic conception of cleaning with the platonic conception of
architecture ... it's two ideologies confronting each other.quot;
http://www.koolhaashouselife.com/
http://www.oma.eu/index.php?option=com_projects&view=portal&Itemid=10&id=19
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/11/koolhaas-houselife-is-a-film.php
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34. Even in “play” spaces
Highly limited identity expression “out of character”
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35. A system for every side of ourselves
Task
Need
Photographer-me Task
Need
Task Situation
Task
Situation Need
Need
Working-me. Private-
Situation
thoughts-me Task
Need
Situation
Dating-me
Situation
Task
Need
Task
Craft-selling-me
Need
Party & Music-me
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36. Client-side devices shape context too.
Web / Twitteriffic:
- Single column
- Serial feed
- Narrow aperture
- Peripheral attention
iconfactory.com
Tweetdeck:
- Multi-column
- Parallel feed tweetdeck.com
- Very wide aperture
- Central attention
SMS:
- Single-message
- No “feed”
- Tiny aperture
- Interruptive / alert
Users of these applications & devices treat the Twitter
www.webmaster247.co.uk/ “space” very differently.
They act as if they are in completely different places.
You can’t control the whole experience.
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38. The Flickr Context System
Home Pages
act as context
maps for
influencing
attention,
setting
priorities.
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39. The Object Viewing Context
Many
embedded
More contexts
Tasks within the
primary
context.
Other contexts
this object
belongs to
Task
(Rule-based
Access)
Conversation
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41. Identity Context
Self-description &
links to other
facets -- sub-
contexts of your
presence/identity.
Reputation
At Flickr, your
identity is, in part,
a construct of
your social
connections.
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44. YouTube / “Context Collapse”
The problem is not lack of context. It
is context collapse: an infinite
number of contexts collapsing
upon one another into that single
moment of recording.
The images, actions, and words
captured by the lens at any moment
can be transported to anywhere on
the planet and preserved (the
performer must assume) for
all time.
The little glass lens becomes the
gateway to a black hole sucking
all of time and space – virtually
all possible contexts – in upon
itself.
Michael Wesch, July 2008
mediatedcultures.net
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45. OLPC
“This was, almost in every way, a traditional
top down product development, that involved
the rural children in India, Africa and China
only in the late stages. Near-finished
prototypes were tested out late in
development, brought to village kids as a “gift.”
It would have been far better to
begin in the villages, spend time
there and build from the bottom up.
Negroponte might have discovered there was
little need for this kind of machine.
Cell phones are far more popular as the means
to connect to the net in much of the Third
World and cell-phone type devices rather than
cute little laptops might have made much more
sense.
Tons of research show this to be true.”
Bruce Nussbaum - Business Week Sept 2007
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47. MyBlogLog
“As you visit MyBlogLog-enabled sites, your
photo shows up on the widget - a virtual
calling card. Clicking on your photo leads to
your profile and all the stuff you share.”
Far below the fold ...
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48. Open ID
The Problem of Unified Reputation
“For example, I may not want my Suicide Girls account
linked to my Wikitravel account. If I participate in fringe-
politics or drug-rights forums, I may not want that identity
associated with my quot;businessquot; persona. As more and
more sites become OpenID-enabled, the value of unifying
your reputation across them is greater, but also the
danger.”
Evan Promdromou
http://evan.prodromou.name/OpenID_Privacy_Concerns
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