After several years working for a vendor that I loved, I have decided to head back into Telecom.  The reasons are many but one of the biggest reasons I have made the move is due to the fact that…

Blogging Again

After many long years of silence I am glad to start up the blog again.  Unfortunately, many companies have severe restrictions around blogging activities so it is better to remain silent than it is to risk offending one’s employer. …

Chunking on interaction-design.org

 First of all, yes I am still alive and dedicated to my blog   However, the wonders of a baby son, work, and life have made it hard to write as much as I…

Myopic Communities

“Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ”
  – Petrarch

I have been working steadily on customer driven content architectures; you know the information systems that allow people to choose the what, where, and when…

Cost as Contributor to Information Architecture Part II

In part one,  I claimed that the goal of every business is to make money (even charity organizations cannot exist without funding).  As a result if you want financial success as an information architect, then you must design architectures…

Success in IT

I have about a dozen posts in a variety states of completion but my hectic schedule is just not allowing me the time to complete them to my satisfaction. Nevertheless, I came across this gem of a post and…

Just Dropping a Note

The good news is Mads Soegaard from Interaction-Design.org  has graciously given me the go ahead to write an entry for the online encyclopedia.  The bad news is we have agreed that chunking would be…

Cost as Contributor to Information Architecture

A teacher of mine once said if I wanted to be rich I should choose to do something I love as my profession and that the money would follow. I have always found his advice somewhat ironic because he…

SEO Pack for WordPress

In the last month or so I noticed that if I searched Martin Harrod in Google, my blog no longer appeared at the top.  This was new because in the past, my blog would always appear at the top when searched my…

I Am Away on Safari

I made a surprise stop by Caribana in Toronto this weekend so my posts have been sparse.  Those of you who know Caribana understand why I have been distracted. . .

Nevertheless, just before I left I…