I came across a post over at ClappingTrees this morning that pointed out the rise in content creation among young people on the web, as well as an increase in their use of social networking tools. The Pew Internet & American Life Project survey (in .pdf) found that 93% of teens use the internet, and [...]

While I’ve talked about ‘Web 2.0′ before in a neutral context before, I often find it difficult to stomach the variety of ’2.0′ variations that have a tendency to profilerate in the collective knowledge management context. The concept of ‘Web 2.0′ comes from a very real place — the idea that the internet as an [...]

Pete Shelton has a really amazing post on Web Tastings about some lessons his group’s learned about teaching researchers about Web 2.0 (which I came across via Nancy White’s post). With all the hype around about Web 2.0, it’s great to hear such a common sense take on what needs to be done around educating [...]

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 [...]