Organizing Principles in a Media-less World; Why and How - DBR 029
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I talk about how information storage and access is changing. Note that it is changing in ways that mean our old metaphors (and their associated 'affordances') are now inaccurate in a couple of meaningful ways. We don't want our metaphors to constrain our organizational thinking, particularly if they're inaccurate or push us toward the wrong affordances. Send me an email - Larry@DoBusyRight.com. Let me know your first name, where you're listening from, and any thoughts you might have. Information - ideas, thoughts, etc from self or other
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- "Possessing" - creating ready/easy/'permanent' access to a (relatively) specific presentation of information - this is being called into question "why do I need to possess when I can just search" - more on this later
- Metaphors - definitions of 'information' are murky, so we rely on metaphors to understand affordances
- Media-less-ness - examples from the changing methods of distribution of music
- Files, folders, 'documents' are common metaphors
- However, these metaphors are based on the physical world, so they carry the notion of physical 'constraints' in our organizational thinking
- A PAPER document can only be in one place at the same time - however, most electronic information artifacts (computer files, etc.) are 'free' to copy
- File cabinet 'space' is limited by physicality - however, nothing is cheaper than storage (example: SQL)
- Finding (becoming aware and possessing) and refinding (accessing for use) - a useful distinction
- We 'possess' information in order to make re-finding easier - the local search space is smaller - therefore, possessing is the first step of organizing (Google syntax vs. 'the website I read last Tuesday')
- Organizing - the act of putting something where you will easily/quickly 're-find' it when you need it, but can ignore it until then
- 'Possessing' is useful as long as search can't find "the one I saw last Tuesday"
- Multiple copies as an organization tool - Why we have multiple pairs of reading glasses
- Pointers and tags as organizational tools - Build a card catalog for your information
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