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User Experience Strategy (07/23/07)
strategy, innovation, appropriation, framing, futurity

Information Architecture 3.0 (11/29/06)
future, web 3.0, role, discipline, community

Authority (10/11/05)
wikipedia, folksonomy, tag clouds, social facts

User Experience Design (06/21/04)
useful, usable, desirable, findable, accessible, credible

International Information Architecture (07/14/03)
l10n, i18n, globalisation, eggshells, tadpoles

Social Network Analysis (02/21/02)
mavens, connectors, structural holes, socially translucent systems

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Books

Ambient Findability
This new book explores search, wayfinding, information interaction, marketing, literacy, librarianship, authority, psychology, and culture at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet. Written by Peter Morville, and published by O'Reilly Media.

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
Available in English, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, and Spanish, this is the definitive book on the topic. Co-authored by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld, and published by O'Reilly Media.

The Internet Searcher's Handbook
This book teaches you how to find what you're looking for on the Web both practically and philosophically. Written by Peter Morville, Lou Rosenfeld, and Joseph Janes, and published by Neal-Schuman.

Columns

Semantics is Peter Morville's irregularly irreverent column about information architecture and findability.

Strange Connections was a regular feature of the Argus Center for Information Architecture from 2000 to 2001. It explored the evolving definition of information architecture.

Web Architect was a column in Songline Studio's Web Review magazine from 1995 to 1999. It offered a humorous yet practical exploration of information architecture topics.

Articles, Interviews and Resources

Riding the Web 2.0 Wave. Interview. Shanghai Talk. (11/1/07)
china, co-creation, tagging, syndication, mashups

Still Tomorrow's Technology. Release 2.0. (8/1/07)
infoviz, information visualization, free beer tomorrow

Real-World Search Engines. Interview. Wall Street Journal. (7/20/07)
gps, rfid, gadgets, gizmos, loc8tor

Ambient Findability Interview. Talking with Talis. (7/16/07)
everyware, miscellaneous, endeca, wikia

A Crazy Librarian. Michigan Innovators. (7/4/07)
libraries, culture, participation, ubicomp

Ambient Findability and the Future of Search. Google. (6/21/07)
surface, street view, iphone, everyzing

UX Zeitgeist Mindshare Index. Rosenfeld Media. (4/4/07)
user experience, mindshare, uxerati, web 2.0, mashup

Enterprise Search and the Future of Findability. (3/21/07)
google, pagerank, gps, rfid, tag and track

Organizing Web Sites & Intranets. Computerworld. (2/7/07)
taxonomies, metadata, structures, schemes

Meet the Enterprise Web. CMS Watch. (2/5/07)
eia, enterprise information architecture, centralization

Ambient Findability, Live Online at The Washington Post. (7/19/06)
metrics, myspace, cyborg monkeys, semantic web

Why Information Architecture Matters, CIO Insight (6/22/06)
findability, credibility, authority, satisfaction

A Garden of Forking Paths, ASIS&T Bulletin. (2/1/06)
book, maze, labyrinth, transmedia, everyware

The New Sense of Place, OnPoint on NPR (1/3/06)
geoweb, maps, mashups, long haul trucking

Ubiquitous Findable Objects (11/17/05)
gps, rfid, spychips, alien technology, mososo

The Impact of Ambient Findability, Business Week (11/9/05)
undesign, unfindable, undesirable, memory, lemur

Libraries at the Crossroads of Ubiquitous Computing and the Internet
delicious library, alexandria, google print, internet archive

Boxes & Arrows Interview (10/31/05)
apophenia, safari, satisficing, everyware

Tagsonomy Interview (10/19/05)
authority, social software, wikipedia, tagging

Infonomia Interview (9/15/05)
ambient findability, lemur, ubicomp, privacy, plazes

Twenty to Watch in 2005
cmswatch, peter morville, #11, bright light

EContent 100 Award
digital content, semantic studios, findability

Ambient Findability, Digital Web Magazine (7/21/04)
trust, informed decisions, intertwingularity, libraries

Findability.org (5/20/04)
ambient findability, findable objects, smart dust, wayfinding

Enterprise Information Architecture (5/05/04)
eia, ecm, enterprise content management, tony byrne

The Information Architecture Library (4/21/04)
information architecture, articles, books, blogs

The User Experience Cosmos (1/15/04)
cartesian model, instructional design, information architecture

A Brief History of Information Architecture, Preface (10/13/03)
history, ia, wurman, false memory, long bets

Labirinti di Informazioni, Internet News Interview in Italian (3/13/03)
organizzazione delle informazioni, il libro, classificare oggetti

The Support Economy, SIGCHI Bulletin Book Review (3/01/03)
customer-centered design, capitalism, sanctuary

Archiving Experience Design, AIGA Loop (12/30/02)
history, education, pong, snow crash, user experience

Interview with Peter and Lou, Digital Web (12/12/02)
big ia, little ia, roi, aifia, optimism

Mapping the Userati (12/02/02)
co-occurrence, citation analysis, jakob nielsen, brenda laurel

Designing Complex Adaptive Systems, New Architect (12/01/02)
taxonomies, faceted classification, controlled vocabularies

Dynamic Duo of Information Architecture, WebWord (10/18/02)
reductionism, selling ia, brand, pet peeves

Google Needs People, O'Reilly Network (10/11/02)
google news, pagerank, humans, algorithms, golem

since1968 interview (10/04/02)
argus, times square, google, small-shop developers

Building the Beast, Boxes & Arrows interview (9/09/02)
yosemite, beef jerky, argus, café mocha, library science

Information Architecture Syllabus, University of Michigan (9/03/02)
organization, labeling, search, navigation

Web Reference, interview by Andy King (8/29/02)
second edition, frank-and-beans economy, findability

FucinaWeb, interview in English and Italian (8/23/02)
second edition, information architecture

Foreword for Blueprints for the Web (8/01/02)
wodtke, navigation, canoes, wayfinding, seamarks

The Age of Findability, first published on Boxes & Arrows (4/29/02)
airports, boxes, usability, findable objects, wayfinding

Software for Information Architects, ACIA (2/19/02)
automated classification, search engines, thesaurus management

Big Architect, Little Architect, ACIA (7/27/00)
primordial soup, information architecture roles, specialization

The Field of Information Architecture, O'Reilly Interview (1/2/00)
introduction, history, librarians, wurman, nostradamus

A New Recipe for VirtualGourmet.com , Business Week (12/3/99)
thesaurus, salmon, frogdesign, synonyms, lox

Information, Architecture, and Usability, Web Review (3/12/99)
christopher alexander, pattern languages, phototropism

Worst Web Faux Pas, Macworld (2/1/99)
navigation, categorization, overwhelming main pages

Building a Synonymous Search Index, Web Review (10/30/98)
thesaurus construction, six steps, pulchritudinous

O'Reilly's Information Architects, Amazon.com Interview (5/1/98)
boot camp, memory palaces, hierarchy, hypertext

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Ambient Findability

Peter Morville’s new book about business and life at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet.

“A lively, enjoyable and informative tour of a topic that’s only going to become more important.”
David Weinberger

“Search engine marketing is the hottest thing in Internet business, and deservedly so. This book puts SEM into a broader context and provides deeper insights into human behavior.”
Jakob Nielsen

“From one of the fathers of the discipline of information architecture come penetrating observations on why findability is elusive and how the act of seeking changes us.”
Steve Papa

“Peter Morville explores the possibilities of a world where everything can always be found — and the challenges in getting there — in this wide-ranging, thought-provoking book.”
Jesse James Garrett

“Skillfully weaving together information science research with his own extensive experience, he develops for the reader a feeling for the near future when information is truly findable all around us. There are immense implications, and Morville’s lively and humorous writing brings them home.”
Marcia J. Bates

“I’ve always known that Peter Morville was smart. After reading Ambient Findability, I now know he’s (as we say in Boston) wicked smart.”
Jared Spool

“In Ambient Findability, Peter Morville has put his mind and keyboard on the pulse of the electronic noosphere. This is a must read for everyone and a practical guide for designers.”
Gary Marchionini

“Myriad examples from rich and varied domains and a valuable idea on nearly every page. Fun to read, too!”
Joseph Janes

Information Architecture

Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld wrote the international best-seller on information architecture.

“Restores information management to its rightful place in management thinking.”
Dave Snowden, IBM Cynefin Centre

“The world will be a better place when web designers read this book.”
Bonnie Nardi, Information Ecologies

“The definitive text for the emerging profession of information architecture.”
Gary Marchionini, UNC Chapel Hill

“The most useful book on web design on the market.”
Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group

“Anyone involved in web site development ought to read this book.”
Peter Merholz, Adaptive Path

“Delivers what you need to be an architect of the wired world.”
Bob Boiko, Content Management Bible

“Hands down, the single most useful book about web site design.”
Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think!

“An essential resource for information architects and their managers.”
Mary Lee Kennedy, Microsoft

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