Book meme
From mistraltoes
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.
5.Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
This is interesting... no, really... (Morville and Rosenfeld, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web):
"These general discussions about the role, value, and qualifications of information architects are worthwhile but incomplete. The community of information architects is experiencing what evolutionary biologists call a period of 'punctuated equilibrium,' marked by rapid change and specialization. Particularly in large organizations, people who began as all-purpose information architects are gravitating towards specialized niches that match their strengths and their organization's needs."
I wouldn't have bothered to post this, except that I happened to hit upon a bit I'd wanted to comment on (yes, pedantically). "Punctuated equilibrium" is not a period of rapid evolutionary change. It's the entire process of evolution in which long, stable periods are "punctuated" by rapid change. What Morville and Rosenfeld mean to say is that IA is in one of the "punctuated" periods (pardon the expression) vs. one of the "equilibrium" periods.
End pedantic rant of former biology major.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.
5.Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
This is interesting... no, really... (Morville and Rosenfeld, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web):
"These general discussions about the role, value, and qualifications of information architects are worthwhile but incomplete. The community of information architects is experiencing what evolutionary biologists call a period of 'punctuated equilibrium,' marked by rapid change and specialization. Particularly in large organizations, people who began as all-purpose information architects are gravitating towards specialized niches that match their strengths and their organization's needs."
I wouldn't have bothered to post this, except that I happened to hit upon a bit I'd wanted to comment on (yes, pedantically). "Punctuated equilibrium" is not a period of rapid evolutionary change. It's the entire process of evolution in which long, stable periods are "punctuated" by rapid change. What Morville and Rosenfeld mean to say is that IA is in one of the "punctuated" periods (pardon the expression) vs. one of the "equilibrium" periods.
End pedantic rant of former biology major.