Author: Christopher Fahey
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IA Summit 2006: Whats Up with Knowledge?
[I’m getting me feet wet for the first time in the world of liveblogging. I’m not sure if I like it or not — it feels a little antisocial or even rude, and I often find myself wanting to pull out my sketchbook and write with a pen — but as part of my ongoing…
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Travelocity Midnight Madness
This will be my very next phone call. After an exquisite redeye flight on Cathay Pacific, I arrived in Vancouver late on Friday a little after midnight. When I got to my hotel, to my dismay I was told that the hotel was fully booked, and that my Travelocity reservation was for Saturday night, not…
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SXSW Confidential, Part 3: Miscellany
Gotta clear out some final SXSW loose ends so I can go on with my life! At least they wont ever change this one, I guess. Virginia Murdoch suggested the creation of a Society for the Preservation of Paul Rand Logos. I could not agree more. I have a message for companies currently sporting a…
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Going to the IA Summit in Vancouver
Less than two weeks after getting back from SXSW, off I go to another conference! Late tonight I’m flying out to the ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit in Vancouver. I was actually on a panel at the 2003 Summit in Portland, but the timing of my business work for the past two years prevented me from…
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A Spime is a Species
There’s a debate going on at Adam Greenfield’s V-2.org (and elsewhere) over Bruce Sterling’s neologism “spime”, a term he coined at Etech 2006 to refer to new technological/networked objects that emerge into human consciousness without a name or an apparent history. In 2001 a new mammal was found in China. This cladogram shows where scientists…
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SXSW Confidential, Part 2: They Write Books
Three great new books, all of which came out within the last month or so, were hot topics at SXSW 2006. What’s especially exciting to me is that all three of them are about subjects I am deeply interested in, and all of them are written by people I know and respect. I’m reading all…
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SXSW Confidential, Part 1: Old School Social Networking
Once we bought books to help us meet interesting people. Now we join internet social networks. I am not a liveblogger (yet), so my notes from SXSW 2006 are emerging only now, a week later. Over the next few days I’ll be gradually synthesizing my notes and posting a few thoughts about my experiences at…
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Time to Switch? (Shame and Inspiration)
(UPDATE 8/29/2007: Dude, I got a Mac!) I was the butt of many jokes at South by Southwest this year, and the majority of them revolved around one thing: I was consistently the only one in any conversation who was a bona fide Windows user. I kid you not, the ribbing was relentless. I simply…
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Tagging -2.0?
I was at first impressed with the power of folksonomy-based tagging (in the sense of allowing users to invent their own taxonomies and metadata for information objects). But now I’m not so sure. I just attended a SXSW panel called “Taxonomy 2.0”, with Tom Vander Wal, Prentiss Riddle, Rashmi Sinha, Adina Levin and moderated by…
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Asynchronous Instant Messaging
You’re chatting with someone over an instant messaging app, when this happens: you: How can I help you? foobar: I need some ideas for a Flash nav… Can you send me that link we saw last week? (you then start typing a very long reply, only to see this next question pop up before you’re…