I’ve been going through some of the videos from the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference that I talked about last time. While I’ve come across some interesting videos, one of the coolest videos I’ve seen was sent to me by a reader (who wishes to remain anonymous). The video below is Pattie Maes demonstrating a wearable [...]

Here’s a short piece about the practice of adding “best bets” to enterprise search (“best bets” are essentially ponters introduced at the top of search results that direct users to documents that should have the highest ranking). This article is based mainly on Dennis Deacon’s comment about setting up “best bets” in enterprise search on [...]

The phrase information architecture (although it is, I suppose, what I do) always conjures up an image of information architecture as building materials that need to be assembled properly in order to function. Perhaps this is a good analogy — and perhaps it’s not. In some sense, information is a bunch of building blocks we [...]

On every post I write, I use Ultimate Tag Warrior to insert some Technorati tags, which show up at the bottom of the post. I’ve been thinking lots about metadata lately — and started wondering how useful those tags actually are (and how much traffic they actually generate). Wikipedia describes metadata as “‘data about data.’ [...]

Robert Berkman has a post on his blog about Serph and TagFetch — two new metasearch engines that will search multiple blog search engines and tag aggregators (including Technorati, Flickr, Digg, YouTube, Google Blog Search, Bloglines and Newsvine). The growth of these sites demonstrates the need for a metadata strategy for the web — which [...]