NYC's Library Hotel is arranged by the Dewey Decimal system. If you stay on the 5th floor, that's the 500 section (science); if you're in room 500.001, that's the math room. (Why isn't the math room 510? This is not made clear.) On the one hand, NYC is a publishing town, so this might be a clever way to attract bookish folks to stay in a hotel. On the other hand, this might be alienating half of those bookish foks, what with the whole Cutter versus Dewey debate that's been going on all these decades. And what about the tagsonomists? Do we have each of them stay in multiple rooms at once? Nonsense! Oh man there's no way I'm staying at that hotel, it goes against everything I believe about information architecture.
In other news, it's taking me a while to figure out travel plans.
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Book Report: The Elements of User Experience
This is a book with a great premise and then problems in the details. The story behind the book is this: Jesse James Garrett made a great diagram about how to organize... let's say it's about how to ...
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@_dev_joe, maintainer of the MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle Index,, has announced an update. More puzzles, more organized, plus a tidbit especially interesting to me since I haven't played in the Mystery Hu...
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Book Report: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
My job title is "Technical Writer" but I don't write much. I work with engineers, helping them to explain their work. Most engineers can write just fine. I bolt organization onto their stuff. Some e...
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Site Update: Better Blog "Tag" Page
You might remember a while back I made a "tag cloud" for this blog; now it's bigger. Before, it didn't show the tags labels tags thingies from the posts I imported from blogger.com. Now, it does. I...
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Site: Tag Cloud
Tinkering with blog software is fun. I set up one of those tag clouds. There's not much there yet, but give it time. ...
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Information Architecture: There Oughtta be a Law
I recently read an article by London Times writer Alan Brien in which he wrote "I used to think that I was the first reader, enraged by the difficulty of tracking down a passage in a long work of r...
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Book Report: Ambient Findability
This was not the right book for me. Rather, I was not the right person to read this book. Ambient Findability is a high-level overview, a survey of the surge of information that's coming at us, and...
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Site Update: Updated Tags for Old Blog Posts
Blogger.com manages this part of my site, the /new/ part. In the long-forgotten days of 2006, Blogger.com didn't support labels/tags/whatever. In those dark days, I hand-made some tags, tags which l...
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Book Report: Everything is Miscellaneous
I am scheduled for HEAD & NECK SURGERY. It says so, in all-capital letters on the appointment form. Don't worry, mom, HEAD & NECK SURGERY is a scary-sounding category of things, but really s...
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Book Report: Giant Robot #36
I am always glad to see an article by Claudine Ko. But I am not sufficiently secure in my whatever to start reading Jane Magazine, where she spends most of her efforts. So instead I read her intervi...
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