Experience maps have become more prominent over the past few years, largely because companies are realizing the interconnectedness of the cross-channel experience. It’s becoming increasingly useful…
Why IA is bad for you. Writes Joshua Porter: “the term “information architecture” has over time come to encompass, as suggested by its principal promoters, nearly every facet of not just web design,…
Services like Foursquare, Gowalla and others make it easy to post your physical location to the Web - but what makes people want to do that at all? Fifteen-month-old Foursquare is adding 100,000 new…
Although a broad paradigm shift may ultimately be necessary if humankind is to make progress addressing the problems it has created for itself, Web 2.0 with its focus on business seems unlikely to…
Useful definitions and examples of cultural or “vernacular” landscapes. “A cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a culture group. Culture is the agent, the natural area is the…
Ito sums it up quite nicely: “The ethos of the Internet is that everyone should have the freedom to connect, to innovate, to program, without asking permission. No one can know the whole of the…
Back in the 1950s, Cold War tensions ran high and so did the DEW Line: high above the Arctic Circle, that is. Though many of the original 63 radar stations have been re-purposed or dismantled, many…
Klout is bad for your soul. The social media tool is being taken up as an actual measure of value and influence. And we should be wary…