I’ve been working on a few other posts but I simply couldn’t resist putting this up! Information science has a lot to do with information architecture to include how it enhances organizational effectiveness. Themes such as simplicity, remix, the future of work, and social aspects like blogs and social networks are all a heavily integrated component of this field. However, one statement seems to address the former part of this paragraph in a way thats crudely eloquent, yet ultimately hilarious. She reminds me of my drill sergeant in basic training, minus the hat.

The Consumerist reports that new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz set a pretty heavy precidence at an all hands meeting. It seems she has purchased some new shoes that have some sort of special lifetime warranty.

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Irony of context

*This is the first post of a multipart series.*

What is “information”?

Well… the truth is no one really has a sound, fundamental, nor concrete definition. The discussions I have observed in regard to this word reveal, for the most part, that there it has no definition without an applied context. Can this really happen? Can we have a word that has no definition without a context applied, which only then obtains meaning? Oh wait, you cant derive meaning without context, and it would be difficult to define a word without the former and latter… dammit now my head hurts. Leer más »