Noise Between Stations

Information Architecture

  • Browse and Search To Become Old-Fashioned Distinctions?

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    Gene Smith’s comments on browse vs. search makes me think the difference between search and browse is melting away, it’s a matter of using the right metadata to describe the content so even the search is basically an automated browse…bouncing from topic to topic to extract the right information. As a scenario, it’ll be like…

  • Organization Schemes

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  • Cheerleaders and Search Engines

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    Looking at my referers I see people often find their way here by searching Google for ‘noise‘ where I’m currently result #9. While this is like warm massage oil on my ego, it confirms what I used to rant about (see March 12) that popular doesn’t necessarily equal better (or more relevant). Does a person…

  • New User Roadmap

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    The DAML (The DARPA Agent Markup Language Homepage ) site has a nice variation on the usual site map – the new user roadmap. They list some of the primary users: software developerXML enthusiastlogicianWWW standards junkieprogram managerSemantic Web researchermilitary userreporter and each is a link to a set of pages for that user type to…

  • RDF Primer

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    Marc Rettig points to this RDF primer, originally authored by Tim Bray and later updated to reflect RDF 1.0. If you’re thinking about metadata for information access but haven’t explored XML yet, it’s a gentle introduction to RDF.

  • Bridget’s Google Hacking

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    Bridget is experimenting with how to improve Google’s ranking of a particular site. A little bombing and tweaking of the title tag did wonders. Historical note: years ago I submitted this blog to Bridget’s portal and she was nice enough to note me in her blog, and the link popularity spread from there. So perhaps…