Jess’s talk from this years Information Architecture Summit. LukeW took some good notes.
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So when I heard about the malicious and threatening comments against Kathy Sierra It made me, like many others, sick. Derek Featherstone told me about her post when we were in a session at the IA Summit. I don’t know all the details of the case but honestly I don’t really care. A line has been crossed. A person I greatly admire has been attacked and as Tara stated we all have to do our part to eradicate this behavior online. It cannot be tolerated.
UPDATE C/O DavidCrow – “Kathy Sierraâ€: and “Chris Lockeâ€: have provided coordinated statements about this situation. They both encourage the limitation of legislation to limit free and open exchanges.
This presentation kicked of the IA Summit this year for me. It is a big topic to get into any real detail in 45 minutes and I’m looking forward to the book.
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We’re witnessing a rapid recognition of the value of search analytics among people from a variety of backgrounds, and we hope that our presentation helps crystallize the discussion within the IA community.
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This was a panel discussion Margaret Hanley, Lisa Chan, Tom Coates and Matt Biddulph given at the 2007 Information Architecture Summit. In a nutshell this discussion we talked about the role of data on the web and how the web is changing the nature of data. It was very entertaining and informative and I’ll add a link to the slides as soon as I can find one. This talk reminded me of another great presentation which is Drew McLellan’s “Can Your Website be Your API?” [ PDF ] and there is a audio recording of that session as well.
I came into this presentation honestly because the other one i wanted to attend was too full for my comfort. What a stroke of luck. I thought I needed to feed my brain but this was one of those sessions that feeds your soul. You take those when you get them. Olly Wright did a great job and this was one of the highlights of the conference for me so far. I don’t know I can accurately convey what the presentation was but you can read an abstract below. Hopefully I’ll add a link to the slides soon when I get one.
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This presentation will look at how as information architects we can approach our work in this cultural context. How we might take an informed, ethical stand. It will cover some of the prominent contemporary theories of ethical design, culture / media studies, and behavioural psychology, and look at their applicability to information architecture. It will explore areas such as brand authenticity, privacy, social networking, push versus pull marketing, and ubiquitous computing. And it will provide concrete examples and methods for how these can be used in practice. The aim is to bring abstract ethical theory down to the level of the concrete and applicable, and perhaps inspire some to add ‘Help make the World a better place’ to every list of requirements.
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