Peter Morville (author of Ambient Findability) wonders out loud about the future of Information Architecture as a discipline, as well as about the role of IAs. Then a bunch of smart people comment… [Tags: information_architecture peter_morville librarians taxonomy folksonomy everything_is_miscellaneous]

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Mark Dionne points out that emailweb.us—a service that delivers fully-formatted Web pages via email—charges $18 per year, but waives the fee if you can answer 10 of 12 questions about the Gospel According to Matthew correctly. [Tags: emailweb religion]

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Craig Swanson and I knew each other a bit when we both worked for Interleaf in the late ’80s and early ’90s. You wouldn’t have guessed from his work self that he’s an artist, cartoonist and humorist, but you wouldn’t have been shocked to find out, either.

I’ve enjoyed keeping up with him a bit over the years by dipping into his posted works. Now he’s posted a brain-crawl in the form of online notebooks. In addition to his cartoons, many of which are nicely drawn invocations of little puns, you don’t want to miss his etch-a-sketch portrait.

Naturally, I appreciate his careful over-taxonomizing of the notebook’s contents… [Tags: craig_swanson taxonomy everything_is_miscellaneous]

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