It’s nice and cozy here. I think I’ll lurk on your blog more often.

Thanks for dropping in on my blog. Eloquent is where I started my career as a ‘techie archivist.’

You’re right, Ambient Findability is more of a high-level summary and a bit of a prophecy rather than a textbook. However, it is great to have all this disparate information strung together into a cohesive narrative that takes stock of where we are at with Information Architecture in 2005/06 and where we are going with it.

I was looking for library/archival blogs, and look who I bumped into! Our paths have crossed before – as of this writing, I’m currently Eloquent’s lead software engineer. Great to make your acquaintance!

I really enjoyed Ambient Findability, although I found it was kind of vague and cloudy – nothing tangible to grab onto, just a collection of loose ideas.

Peter Morville’s great. Have you had a chance to look at Information Architecture yet? It’s a lot longer than Ambient Findability, and as a professional archivist it probably contains a lot of things you already know. However, it does a great job of tying LIS into Web design. Most people likely aren’t aware of how closely the two are intertwined.

I’d be really curious to see if folksonomies can be successfully applied to archives, but I have my doubts. After all, folksonomies are all about emergent patterns – the wisdom of the masses. They only work if you’ve got thousands and thousands of users in an active community, and very few archives can claim such a user base. So I guess we’re stuck with time-consuming taxonomies for now.