Bits for atoms
We’re repainting our house – this is one of the colours about to be mixed at our local hardware shop. A small snippet of the… Read More »Bits for atoms
We’re repainting our house – this is one of the colours about to be mixed at our local hardware shop. A small snippet of the… Read More »Bits for atoms
While findability comes first, we must also remember that categories are about more than retrieval. Classification helps our users to understand. Through splitting, lumping and… Read More »Peter Morville on Category and Taxonomy (1)
My sister (let’s call her Sharky) bought me a book for Christmas. Sharky lives in Argentina. She bought the book from a shop in the… Read More »The new possible
… producing books with ease on Gutenberg’s press did not fully unleash text. Real literacy also required a long list of innovations and techniques that… Read More »Deep literacy: Kevin Kelly on more than reading
What if all of the value you created could be understood along one of three axes: time, energy (including matter, which includes information), and space.… Read More »Vectors of value
Unlike “the three Rs” of reading, writing and arithmetic which are woven within the K-12 curriculum, information literacy falls through the cracks. It doesn’t fit… Read More »(Information) literacy
In the era of ecosystems, seeing the big picture is more important than ever, and less likely. It’s not simply that we’re forced into little… Read More »Intertwingled