Am just back from a trip to GSLIS at McGill (great people, wonderful hospitality) where I spoke last week to faculty and students there on the future of information studies and the need for us to more aggressively position the field through better research and a focus on real world issues. I mentioned, rather bluntly, [...]
There is much interest in attracting new students, especially female, to computer science and it has not gone unnoticed by some in that discipline that there is a real image problem. The Computer Research Association, a grouping of some 200 academic departments in computer science and engineering, is doing its best to put the sex [...]
I have submitted copies of practically all my published journal and conference papers to the dList open archive — see: dlist.sir.arizona.edu/. They may take some time to appear there as they are currently being added but I had such success with the Crying Wolf paper there that it seems a useful place for others to [...]
The not-so-wonderfully named School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley just announced that it has changed its name to the School of Information (www.sims.berkeley.edu/). The previous name lasted only 12 years, replacing the common School of Library and Information Science, which itself replaced School of Librarianship in 1976 (at this rate we might [...]
After 5 years of writing a column on information architecture for BASIST I summed up my take on the field in ten simple ‘rules’ (I use the term loosely).
1. No, we never did define it to everyone’s satisfaction.
2. Communities matter more.
3. [...]
The Gallup group have just released a poll on blogging (poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=21397) and it is being interpreted by some as a swipe at the hype. In a survey of just over 1000 adult respondents they report that 60% of users never read a blog. This is a classic case of needing to read the full data [...]