In content metadata and hierarchies, you will often find a goldmine of implicit and explicit data that you can leverage to creatively contextualize content... http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/developing_and_creatively_leveraging_hierarchical_metadata_and_taxonomy.php



Ensuring that your website or intranet is easy to access, search and navigate is imperative;

50% of all web searches are abandoned

Knowledge workers spend from 15% to 35% of their time searching for information

Searchers are successful in finding what they seek 50% of the time or less.

21% of knowledge workers can find what they need 85% to 100% of the time

For every 1000 knowledge workers at $80,000 salary each per year the costs are:

Time spent looking and not finding - $6M

Cost of re-working and re-creating- $12M*

http://www.ark-group.com/home/xq/asp/sid.0ACE8442-892C-4B1F-AD50-F244C743AF09/eventid.58D2DCAC-538D-42B6-8834-387E911C85E8/qx/events/event.htm



It appears that, invariably, the advanced users, the professionals of programming and in general the so called “power users” end up adopting the syntactic knowledge of the interface, be it the command line or the keyboard shortcuts that GUIs also offer. For the rest of the mere mortals, that don’t have the time nor the need to go beyond this, they use visual knowledge, much easier to acquire and to understand. http://www.infovis.net/E-zine/2004/num_146.htm



(Flash) Interactive Maps at http://www.skyscraper.org/home_flash.htm

http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/search/browse/keywords.html online photo collections.

from http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/arts/design/14SKY.html?ex=1399867200&en=afc9734c0d5452d7&ei=5007&partner=WEBLOGS



"Whenever a Jesuit priest or a Calvinist pastor does anything of significance -- making a key decision, for instance -- he is expected to write down what results he anticipates. Nine months later he traces back from the actual results to those anticipations. That very soon shows him what he did well and what his strengths are. It also shows him what he has to learn and what habits he has to change. Finally, it shows him what he has no gift for and cannot do well."



"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Auguste Rodin