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Education Programs Information Science Education Committee Education for Information Architecture Project Introduction The ASIS&T Information Science Education Committee is conducting a project on education for information architecture. The first phase of the project, in which the committee is currently engaged, is to gather information about existing courses and programs and to make this information available at the committee web site. The information gathered thus far is below.  Information architecture programs and courses  This listing is based on a search of the Web in March 2003 and on responses to an email survey posted on asis-l and JESSE listservs. The initial goal of the project is to identify programs and courses rather than to evaluate them or gather in-depth information.  At this point, the listing is limited to U.S. and Canadian institutions. We invite any institutions with either IA degree programs and/or courses in IA or with significant IA components to send information to the ASIS&T Information Science Education Committee for inclusion in this listing. Please send responses (and any corrections of additions) to Dietmar Wolfram (dwolfram@uwm.edu).

My friend updated me fast on the social networks he uses: apparently he relies mostly on Facebook after having dumped Twitter. As I followed this story via my Twitter account, Twitter developed in just a few hours into an excellent information tool, combining different sources of information. I knew more about the earthquake than many people in China.

In addition to the everyday struggles of information overload the average computer user deals with - like the overflowing inbox, for example - those in the internet/new media/technology space aren't just overwhelmed with new content, but also with new applications and choices to manage that content. What's a web-app loving person to do?

Early adopters are not going to stop playing with every new service, but it's clear that we're getting to a point where tools that centralize, aggregate, but most importantly filter our content are going to be the ones that win out. There are only so many hours in the day, and, as it stands right now, every single one of them could be filled just consuming and interacting with content, social media, and web services.

I'm sorry to say that I had previously received an approach from two charities - one via Facebook and the other by email - but hadn't yet made a donation.  However, Jeremiah's Twitter message changed that. Charities, take note...

There are at least 30 people who have indicated they’ve given through Jeremiah’s updates on Twitter, and more – no doubt – who have given privately.

The images of the earthquake relief effort in China have been horrifying and deeply moving and remind me what has always been so compelling about my job - the ease and speed with which still pictures can impart so much readily understood information to so many people.   

Today, 1kg.org manages a database of over 200 elementary schools which includes information on: 1) how many students are in the school; 2) what is the kids’ primary need; 3) the school name and contact person; 4) detailed directions, including method of transportation, of how an independent traveler can reach the school. Last year, more than 130 independent travelers volunteered to carry one kilogram of stationery or books to the kids on the travelers’ trips.

social networking翻译成白话文就是关系网，这恰恰是中国过剩的东西，不需要接着去死命经营，而豆瓣这个网站在一开始吸引人，是因为它的人文气息。我们老家有句方言，叫，“和大踩”，说是和一群人在一起应酬来应酬去，把时间耽误掉，最后一起蹉跎岁月。

I didn't find any of my friends using this, but I did find an old account of my own that I had completely forgotten about. For a split second I was like, "how did this person find all those photos of me???" Lol.

Any thoughts on the privacy issue I raised above? Revealing information about users shouldn't be something a user has to opt out of. For example some people may not want their co-workers or potential employers to know that they have a flickr account. They should have to opt in instead of opt out. I think this could get ugly for some people who don't want to be found. Also the setting for opting out should be changed. I may want to be found by my flickr buddy name, but just not by the new email address way. There should be a way to leave things the same way they were before. Now I can only opt out of everything or opt in for everything.

Proggie: Privacy is something we take very seriously at Flickr. People have actually always been searchable by email address on Flickr (via "People Search"), and we chose to respect our member's existing people search preference settings (as well as make that preference page easier to find). On the opt-out versus opt-in issue, this is something where we carefully weighed the options, and chose the default option based on what we feel would have the greatest benefit for the majority of our members. Just as we chose to make "public" the default for uploaded photos, we chose to preserve opt-out as the default for people search on Flickr.

不容忽视的是，基于垂直内容需求的人群正在形成，我自己也正是这很多个需求群体中的一个，他们只需要他们关注的那个领域的足够信息，至于其他的，剩余的20%时间就够了。

运转一个blog是一项承诺和义务，应该被视为你职业的一大堆义务的一部分。当我最初以学者身份开始blog之时，曾向其他blogger寻求建议。他们强调的是，重要之处在于设置发表你blog的日程表并且坚持它。至于你到底是每周写一次还是每天写一次，这倒不要紧，重要的是你得坚持添加内容。否则，在任何一天不去写一篇blog文章都是非常容易的。然后经过一段时间，这种偷懒的诱惑的积累会让你最终远离blog。在你的“困难时期”，设置截止日期和有策略地生产内容非常重要，某种程度的“纪律”会让你一直保持动力。

过去，学者们在成为其所在领域的高级专家后才渐渐拥有作为公共知识分子的声誉；如今越来越常见的是，年轻的研究者们使用blog作为建构声誉的资源，特别是在那些权威尚待树立的跨学科领域中。

我们也看到了帮助学生培育其作为公共知识分子的技能、并设法将其观点转化为可以面向多元受众、跨领域传播的公众话语的价值所在。

一如 Clay Shirky 所說的，「今天每一個 URL 就是一個社群互動、團體行動的可能。」

一如我期待未來的群眾，從四面八方、從各種語言但是有自己生命軌跡的參與者，丟出他們平淡無奇的提問。正是因為你我軌跡如此不同，我們才能夠讓網路世界比充斥著文化社會資本的傳統世界窗口，還來得光鮮亮麗、生動有趣！

…以我為例，每天起床，打開火狐瀏覽器，先連上我工作的中時電子報，然後利用瀏覽器的分頁功能，一個分頁連上Bloglines，接收我訂閱的一七一個RSS，幾個分頁連上黑米、推推王等書籤網站，一個連上Twitter，然後再開一個分頁，前往其他新聞網站或部落格。一整天，我都在這些分頁間切換，跳躍閱讀，吸收的資訊量可能上千篇；當一天結束，我發現，我從書籤網站或部落格裡得到的資訊，往往比傳統媒體，尤其千篇一律的電視新聞裡更多，數十倍。或許你發現了，以往由少數報紙、三家電視台寡占的傳播模式，早已是歷史，當你以為七家新聞台、十幾家報紙已經是「資訊爆炸」，請試試網路如恆河沙的寧靜喧囂。