Posted on Fri 27 August 2010 in Situation Theory • Tagged with information, information architecture
In the interest of exploring Perry and Israel's information architectures further, I will elaborate upon my previous post on the topic, and give a more fine-grained account of some of their ideas.
Suppose that we take as signal the presence of smoke, and its indicated content that there is a …
Posted on Fri 06 August 2010 in Situation Theory • Tagged with information, information architecture
Notes on "Information and Architecture" by John Perry and David Israel
David Israel and John Perry build upon the idea of pure and incremental content (developed in previous work) to introduce their notion of an information system of signal structures, describing three general kinds of information architectures: coincident architectures, combinative …
Posted on Fri 06 August 2010 in Rumination • Tagged with diffusion, information
Recently I read a paper co-authored by a number of social network social scientists on the dynamics of the news cycle as evidenced by a medium-grained examination of the diffusion and transformation of phrase variants across the web. The authors, Leskovec, Backstrom, and Kleinberg, have a supporting web site, http …