Here’s the presentation I did for A Summit 2009 in Memphis, TN. It’s an update of what I did for IDEA 2008; it’s not hugely different, but I think it pulls the ideas together a little better. The PDF is downloadable from SlideShare. The notes are legible only at full-screen or on the PDF.
TheContextProblem
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You Are (Mostly) Here: Digital Space & the Context Problem
March 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Information Architecture
Tags:context·Design·informationarchitecture·userexperience·ux
Oh, my binary heart
October 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Stuff
David Weinberger’s most recent JOHO post shows us some thinking he’s doing about the history (and nature) of “information” as a concept.
The whole thing is great reading, so go and read it.
Some of it explores a point that I touched on in my presentation for IDEA earlier this month: that computers are very [...]
Tags:context·weinberger
Context Collapse
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Stuff
First of all, I didn’t realize that Michael Wesch had a blog. Now that I’ve found it, I have a lot of back-reading to do.
But here’s a recent post on the subject of Context, as it relates to web-cams and YouTube-like expression. Digital Ethnography — Context Collapse
The problem is not lack of context. It [...]
Public vs Published
June 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
When I first heard about the Kozinski story (some mature content in the story), it was on NPR’s All Things Considered. The interviewer spoke with the LA Times reporter, who went on about how the judge had “published” offensive material on a “public website.”
I won’t go into detail on the story itself. But I [...]
Tags:context·privacy·publishing

