Wednesday, December 01, 2004

What kind of Work are we doing?

At todays Online-Information conference in London, Louis Rosenfeld gave a keynote on Information Architecture, and was cheerful and optimistic. He gave us a survey of his views on the changing patterns of work for Information Architects.

Louis Rosenfeld, co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web talked about those who work with corporations (innies) and those who work as self-employed consultants (outies).

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Two things that make for good opportunities for Information Architects: 1. The explosion of content (I learnt from Adrian Dale that in 2003 there was 800Mb of data for every person on the planet) 2. R.O.T. - Redundant, Outdated and Trivial content (tons of it!) Lou Rosenfeld finds good opportunities working with 'messy, political enterprises'.