Wednesday, September 20, 2006

The Information Architecture Survey for the third edition of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld has been released. View at http://findability.org/archives/000131.php

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Taxonomy at The Economist

I am always on the lookout for good articles on taxonomy, because of my interest in the taxonomies of Information Architecture and classic linnean classification of birds. Here are a couple of features from Feb 9 Economist:

Names for sale
Feb 9th 2006
From The Economist print edition
The ancient science of taxonomy might benefit from a little modern marketing
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5494618

Today we have naming of parts
Feb 9th 2006
From The Economist print edition
A global registry of animal species could shake up taxonomy
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5492016

Biomechanics of Way Finding

The March 2006 issue of Natural History Magazine (the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History) has a cover feature called "Learning to Find Your Way," studying the biological pathways of spatial memory.

Not yet available online, but available at newstands:
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/0306/0306_toc.html