Information Architecture

Book Excerpt: Seven Business Benefits of Tagging (Jul 2, 2008)
I posted a link to this on our company blog a few days ago but thought I should share it here as well: Peachpit.com has a short excerpt from my book called Return on Investment: Seven Business Benefits of Tagging...

Brand Tags: the really effective tag cloud (May 14, 2008)
In my book I write about some of the trade-offs involved in making tag clouds. Whenever you have a lot of tags, tag frequencies usually follow a power-law distribution. A few tags are used lots of times; most tags are...

My IA Summit Slides (Apr 16, 2008)
I've posted the slides of my IA Summit talk "Tagging: Five Emerging Trends" on SlideShare. I wrote out this talk in advance, so the slides were really just accompaniment. Still, I hope there's some value for those of you that...

Earlier Posts

Another Social IA Workshop, October 20 in Milwaukee (Sep 20, 2007)

Is tagging stuck? Hardly. (Sep 5, 2007)

Is miscellaneousness a virtue? (May 17, 2007)

My IA Summit Schedule (Mar 11, 2007)

Information architecture cannot die (Nov 30, 2006)

Idea 2006, October 23 to 24 (Aug 23, 2006)

The genius of Digg (Aug 18, 2006)

Webvisions presentation on social information architecture (Jul 21, 2006)

How do people co-create information environments? (Jul 7, 2006)

More redux goodness with Kevin Cheng (May 2, 2006)

Online Summit Redux (Apr 18, 2006)

Social IA panel (Mar 29, 2006)

My IA Summit preview (Mar 14, 2006)

A simple pixel ruler for Visio (Feb 9, 2006)

Search analytics survey (Dec 14, 2005)

Access 2005 presentation (Oct 17, 2005)

IA Summit call for papers out (Oct 16, 2005)

Ian Davis on why tagging Is expensive (Sep 16, 2005)

How do we do HTML wireframes? (Sep 10, 2005)

Tom Coates on bubble-up folksonomies (Sep 2, 2005)

Clay strikes back (Aug 28, 2005)

Ontology is Overrated follow-up (Aug 8, 2005)

Folksonomies: Year One (Aug 3, 2005)

Search tagging (May 3, 2005)

Market populism in the folksonomies debate (Apr 20, 2005)

Hear me talk (Mar 30, 2005)

Beyond the Page (the return) (Mar 9, 2005)

IA Summit Folksonomies Panel (Mar 8, 2005)

Ceci n'est pas un sentier (Feb 10, 2005)

Visual folksonomy explanation (Jan 24, 2005)

Folksonomies and i18n (Jan 15, 2005)

Your personal IA pony (Jan 6, 2005)

Outsourcing IA/UX (Dec 6, 2004)

Personal information architecture (Nov 2, 2004)

Page block diagram (Oct 15, 2004)

Beyond the Page (Oct 8, 2004)

Problems in the middle (Sep 22, 2004)

More social classification (Aug 13, 2004)

Enterprise IA summary (Aug 4, 2004)

Folksonomy: social classification (Aug 3, 2004)

Alertbox walled garden (Jul 19, 2004)

Findability.org launches (May 21, 2004)

New tools (May 5, 2004)

IA Library (Apr 21, 2004)

Designing experiences (Apr 19, 2004)

Wireframes (Mar 29, 2004)

The experience of Ebay (Mar 9, 2004)

IA Summit blog (Feb 24, 2004)

Content Management for Information Architects workshop (Jan 13, 2004)

Sweet IA resources (Dec 3, 2003)

Usability heuristics matrix (Oct 27, 2003)

IA Tools (Sep 23, 2003)

AIfIA Translation Project launches (Jul 1, 2003)

DUX 2003 Photos (Jun 12, 2003)

Information Architects banned in Ohio (Jun 11, 2003)

Facets + Flash (Apr 29, 2003)

The new book (Feb 4, 2003)

AIfIA Leadership Seminar (Jan 29, 2003)

UX Titles (Jan 17, 2003)

Asilomar (Nov 13, 2002)

Hanging With The Flacks (Oct 26, 2002)

Web shells (Sep 19, 2002)

Content Inventories (Jun 26, 2002)

UX in NYTimes (Jun 12, 2002)

CM ROI (Jun 10, 2002)

IA/UX/Call Centre ROI (May 1, 2002)

Communities & Audiences (Apr 29, 2002)

3SC social values (Apr 26, 2002)

The Big O (Apr 16, 2002)

Browse beats search/combine (Apr 15, 2002)

IA model (Apr 14, 2002)

Interface design, courtesy SAP (Apr 8, 2002)

Dis-content (Apr 8, 2002)

A puzzle language (Apr 2, 2002)