Leslie roughly captures a few thoughts I've had and some reasonably opinions. In a nutshell: the social value of tagging is broad, fuzzy, and a second-order effect. As a loose, freeform taxonomy for personal use, they're superb, and delicious captures that excellently. I tag for me; if it's useful for you, that's a nice side effect.

"One-Sheeters are quick and easy marketing tools for information architects. They're like mini brochures to advertise IA deliverables and promote the IA practice in your company."

"it's the deep understanding you develop for the content, the organisation and ultimately the domain where I think the real value lies."

"...supporting the retelling of experiences is important. After all if you’re offering a cool product or service, you want others to know about it. A passionate user is probably your best advocate." More great stuff from Kars.

"Why would I ever want to use Facebook as the UI for blogs? One simple reason: people as tags, tags as people."

"If you approach design not as embedding your story in the environment, but as creating an environment wherein users can create their own stories, then I’d say you’re on the right track." Kars on playful IA again.

"Designing playful IAs means taking care that you encourage discovery, support exploration and provide feedback on mastery." Kars' whole talk is great, really.

"Scrolling works. Long pages work. Anything else tends to be informationarchitecturitis."

"Games create conceptual touchstones - shared references that bridge different points of view and provide a common platform for conversation. That’s what most design deliverables try to do, with varying degrees of success."

Nice, effective, comprehensive palette for wireframing webpages. A must-download for any Omnigrafflers.

"What does rich mean to a UI (user interface) designer who wants to craft intelligent, compelling, and memorable interactions?"

"the idea of a page has such a deeply rooted connotation in centuries of printed matter that Web novices tend to think of Web pages as simply finite blocks of text and images, with functionality and interactions as only superficial garnishes."

Clickable Omnigraffle prototypes which export to clickable PDFs. Very nice; makes me want a new version of Omnigraffle to replace my copy of 2.0...

"Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia", by Cory Doctorow

Read it a long while ago, but great to come back to - a fantastic piece of Clay Shirky on fuzzy classifications.

Very true. This, and a beautiful piece of print design I saw this weekend, are giving me _all_ sorts of ideas...

Sometimes there’s a lot more to simple than meets the eye.

"Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn’t been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place." - Thank you, EB White.

Good navigation tells a story, and good stories have a beginning, middle, and end.

"I am an information architect because I care about the structure of information and building things from that structure"

Nice IA piece from boxesandarrow

"We’re not creating a space that people move through, and engage with. We’re classifying material to be retrieved. But with web 2.0, we are providing an architecture — a space, a platform through which and upon which people move, contribute, and cha

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