My slides are available here, and here are relevant links.

Screencast links:
Camtasia – http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
Captivate – http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/
Jing Project – http://www.jingproject.com/
Screencast.com – http://www.screencast.com
Screencast-o-matic – http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

Podcasting resources:
Freevlog tutorial – http://www.freevlog.org/index.php/category/tutorial/
Podcasting Resources for Libraries – http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/technology/podcasting.htm
Library Success Wiki: Podcasting – http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Podcasting
OurMedia Learning Center – http://ourmedia.org/learning-center
Mashable Podcasting Toolbox – http://mashable.com/2007/07/04/podcasting-toolbox/

Accessibility resources:
How to provide audio descriptions for video or animated content – http://www.skillsforaccess.org.uk/howto.php?id=104
W3C accessibility guidelines – http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php
MAGpie – http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/index.html
Hi-Caption Studio – http://www.hisoftware.com/hmcc/
Automatic Sync Technologies (transcription) – http://www.automaticsync.com/
Casting Words (transcription) – http://castingwords.com/

YouTube videos:
Monks’ help desk – http://youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
My Books music video – http://youtube.com/watch?v=hcnTJ43XWuk
Michael Wesch’s “The Machine is Us/ing Us” – http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=84

Here’s my post on last year’s presentation.

I was pleased to find that Peter Morville himself has published a syllabus that focuses on his book, but also offers further readings and case studies. I intend to use his syllabus as my main reading list, but because it appears to be a few years old, I’ll be supplementing it with some more recent case studies and articles drawn from other sources.

Below you’ll find citations and links to the syllabi, articles, and other resources I’ll be studying from now until mid-December. I’ll likely be making additions and subtractions, and would appreciate any suggestions for further readings.

(Citations are listed in the order I’ll be reading them rather than in alphabetical order.)

Main Syllabus:

Morville, Peter. “Information Architecture Syllabus.” Semantic Studios. 2003. 22 July 2006.
http://www.semanticstudios.com/publications/iasyllabus.html.

Garrett, Jesse James. “The Elements of User Experience.” Jesse James Garrett’s Hidden Agenda. 2000.
http://jjg.net/ia/elements.pdf.

Bates, Marcia J. “The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques for the Online Search Interface.” University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School of Library and Information Science. 1989. 22 July 2006.
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/berrypicking.html.

Berners-Lee, Tim, James Hendler and Ora Lassila. “The Semantic Web.” Scientific American May 2001. 22 July 2006.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21.

Merholz, Peter. “Innovation in Classification.” Peterme.com. 2001. 22 July 2006.
http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000063.html.

Leise, Fred, Karl Fast and Mike Steckel. “All About Facets & Controlled Vocabularies.” Boxes and Arrows. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/all_about_facets_controlled_vocabularies.

Flamenco Search. http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/. UC Berkeley School of Information. 9 September 2006.

Nielsen, Jakob. “First Rule of Usability? Don’t Listen to Users.” Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox. 2001. 22 July 2006.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010805.html.

Willis, Dan. “Classic IA Tools.” Boxes and Arrows. 2003. 22 July 2006.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/images/042103_willis/dswilliscom_classictools.pdf.

Crotty Fraser, Janice. “Taking a Content Inventory.” New Architect. 2001. 22 July 2006.
http://adaptivepath.com/events/training/complete/files.php.

Garrett, Jesse James. “ia/recon.” jjg.net. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://jjg.net/ia/recon/.

Shirky, Clay. “Social Software and the Politics of Groups.” Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet. 2003. 22 July 2006.
http://shirky.com/writings/group_politics.html.

Morville, Peter. “Social Network Analysis.” Semantic Studios. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000006.php.

Morville, Peter. “Ambient Findability.” Semantic Studios. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000008.php.

Saffo, Paul. “Untangling the Future.” Business 2.0 June 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://www.saffo.com/essays/untangling.php.

The Long Now Foundation. 22 July 2006.
http://www.longnow.org/.

Case Studies:

Rosenbaum, Howard. “L571: Information Architecture for the Web Syllabus: Spring 2006.” 2006. Indiana University School of Library and Information Science. 22 July 2006.
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/hrosenba/www/L571/syll/outline.html.

Fox, Chiara. “PeopleSoft.com Case Study Enterprise Information Architecture.” Adaptive Path. 2001. 22 July 2006.
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/hrosenba/www/L571/pdf/fox_peoplesoft.ppt.

Lippell, Helen. “The ABCs of the BBC: A Case Study and Checklist.” Boxes and Arrows. 2005. 22 July 2006.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the_abcs_of_the_bbc_a_case_study_and_checklist.

Parrish, Hannah. “Customer Storytelling at the Heart of Business Success.” Boxes and Arrows. 2005. 22 July 2006.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/customer_storytelling_at_the_heart_of_business_success.

Rampoldi-Hnilo, Lynn. “Uncovering Users In Your Own Organization.” Boxes and Arrows. 2005. 22 July 2006.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/uncovering_users_in_your_own_organization.

Story, Greg. “Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia (or Build a Website for No Reason).” A List Apart. 2005. 22 July 2006.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/landwarinasia.

Other resources:

Miller-Francisco, Emily. “A Brief Bibliography on Information Architecture.” Southern Oregon University. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://home.sou.edu/~millere/ia/handout.html.

Jacob, Elin. “L540 : Foundations of information architecture.” Indiana University School of Library and Information Science. 2003. 22 July 2006.
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/syllabi/fall_2003/L540_jacob.html.

Morville, Peter. “Information Architecture Research.” Semantic Studios. 2004. 22 July 2006.
http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000030.php.

Turnbull, Don. “LIS385T Information Architecture and Design.” University of Texas Graduate School of Library and Information Science. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~l385tdt/.

Brown, Mary E. “Course Syllabus: ILS 599 Information Architecture.” Southern Connecticut State University. 2006. 22 July 2006.
http://www.southernct.edu/~brownm/599ia_Sp2006_syllabus.html.

In February, I read Just for Fun, by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. Overall, I really enjoyed it. Readers who are expecting a line-by-monospaced line breakdown of the birth of Linux will be very disappointed, however, as the book focuses much more on the circumstances that made Linus into a determined coder rather than on the technical details of his OS. The biographical narratives of his formative years are charming, and Linus has a dry, nerdy wit that comes through and keeps the story moving.

It took me a while to get used to the dueling narrators structure of the book. Rather than playing the role of ghost writer (or maybe rather than just playing the role of ghost writer), Diamond trades off narrating chapters with Torvalds. I think this would have been easier for me to take if Diamond’s chapters weren’t printed entirely in italics. I think the shift from first- to third-person narration could just as easily have been illustrated with a change in typeface, rather than style.

About the last quarter of the book is devoted to Linus explaining his opinions on copyright and free and open-source software (FOSS), which as you might imagine, are plentiful. Torvalds’s OS has become the defacto poster child for open-source, despite his very public conflicts with Richard Stallman, creator of the GPL, the license which has facilitated the protection and creation of FOSS. It probably says more about my geek orientation than about the quality of the writing, but I found this part of the book to be the most interesting and engaging.

Anyway, recommended as a quick read for those of you who are interested in the early days of open-source, nerd biography, or italics.

A year or so ago I got a Griffin RadioShark, which, though an oft-maligned product, has worked great for me. I now record This American Life, On The Media, The Splendid Table and Kevin Beacham’s Redefinition Radio every week for free in glorious DRM-free mp3 files, and have more than enough road trip audio.

As a result of using the RadioShark, I haven’t used Audible.com in a while. As of today, I never will again. I got a call this morning on my cell phone from a telemarketer trying to sell me an annual membership to Audible. I was shocked. By definition Audible customers are tech-savvy enough that email ought to be their default marketing tool. Seems to me that in this post-Do Not Call List era that telemarketing is a realm reserved for the desperate or fradulent, because the odds of alienating customers are just too high.

It bears mentioning, however, that if you’re planning on reading the book, you should do it soon. I don’t buy hardcover books that often, but I made an exception for this title because I knew its timeliness was fleeting. The pace of the industry is such that some sections of the book are already out of date. A revised and updated version in paperback seems a virtual certainty. In the mean time, check out John’s site: http://battellemedia.com, where he continues to blog search-related items daily.

So, now it’s on to February’s selection. I picked up Just For Fun, which is a semi-auto biography of Linus Torvalds, coauthored with David Diamond. I’m not that far into it, and thus far I’m not enthralled with the odd narrative style, but I’m curious enough about Linus’s background and the origins of Linux that I’m going to stick with it.

For the record, I plan on picking books for this project fairly randomly, but as with Just For Fun, when I don’t have anything else planned, I’m taking titles from Joel Spolsky’s Fog Creek Software Management Training Program reading list, which seems to be a pretty decent curriculum for anyone who finds themselves at the intersection of business and technology.

I’ve recently picked up my copy of O’Reilly’s Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Panther again, and have been messing around a little bit with the command line.

Refreshing myself on a few basics left me feeling confident enough to try using Tynsoe.org’s GeekTool, an OS X system preference pane that allows you to display the output of terminal commands on the desktop. Tynsoe.org’s most recent update of GeekTool does not support OS X.4 Tiger (I’m up to date with 10.4.3), but an Italian developer has released a Tiger-optimized version.

With a little assistance from the Mac OS X Hints forums and Bryant Mairs’ Thrash the Swap weblog, I’ve now got GeekTool displaying my current CPU load as well as the 10 most CPU-intensive processes currently running. These displays refresh every 10 seconds, and show the PID, which thanks to the abovementioned book, I now know is quite important when it comes to managing tasks from the command line.

I hope to outpace my goal significantly, but because I want an inducement to maintain a reading pace throughout the year, I’m not going to give myself credit for reading ahead. That is to say that if I manage to read two or even three books in January, I don’t get December off.

I’ve begun the year with John Battelle’s The Search, which thus far is a great retelling of the early days of search, and the wild late 90s, when I was in college, and it seemed that every month or so there was a new search engine on the scene. I’m a little over halfway through, and I’d recommend it.