« Simplicity | Main | Google in China » Emergent IAA couple of older notes about emergent information architecture, the first by Peter Merholz, who talks about the range of architectures from those explicitly created by the user to those implicitly derived from user behavior – with tags a hybrid: "They’re explicit in that people have to engage in some explicit act of applying the tag. They’re implicit because the aggregate of that tagging leads to folksonomies and other social metadata that starts making connections between information that was not there before." The other post, by Gene Smith, is about how people co-create information environments, looking not only at the x-axis from implicit to explicit, but also factoring in a y-axis of personal to participatory. These are from back in July, so not new; I ran across them via a post by Adrian Chong at the now-defunct iaslash. (Archives still available to dig through... still yielding goodies.) jon posted this at 9:19 PM |
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