Continuum of value of documents

This is another response to a post about the “shared drive problem.” Shiv Singh of Avenue A- Razorfish commented that “Every document in an organization is not necessarily important enough to tag. Some organizations address this problem by first determining what knowledge/information/data is worth capturing for retrieval and then putting KM mechanisms in place to [...]

Bizzare (effective? ) interfaces

Dan Linski of ad agency Slingshot (www.davidandgoliath.com) posted some interesting and unusual user interfaces.
http://dontclick.it
http://www.pixelgasoline.com
http://www.agencynet.com
http://www.matthewmahon.com
Though the first one had technical problems, the others are interesting and compelling (at least from a curiosity perspective). Perhaps what a consumer products company needs for audiences used to lots of graphics and stimulation. Or the type of thing that appeals [...]

Thoughts in cages

In my mind, everything boils down to a name. We name things all the time in our day-to-day lives. We think in terms of categories, lists, things that need to be done. The essence of language is to represent concepts - representations of our thinking.