Information Architecture Sphere

In case any one is looking for Inspiring Imagery ...

:: From Fourmilab Switzerland by John Walker ::

Earth and Moon Viewer - just one of the MANY remarkable creations from John Walker!

Viewing the Earth

You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe.

It's indeed amazing !!!

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Another great site around now is www.pixos.net ,
and my modest submission can be viewed here in "Pollution in ..."
http://www.pixos.net/gallery/2004/23/#335

Participate!!!

Now for the good news: There is a dune on the beach. There is a breakwater in the ocean that is clearly emerging in these last fleeting moments of the 20th century. The breakwater is indeed breaking up the tsunami of data and focusing it in a more organized way to answer our questions and concerns. There is a new breed of graphic designers, exhibition designers, illustrators and photographers, whose passion it is to make the complex clear.

I call this new breed of talented thinkers Information Architects and this book was created to help celebrate and understand the importance of their work - a work which inspires hope that as we expand our capabilities to inform and communicate that we will value, with equal enthusiasm, the design of understanding.

The resource presented here on IA is perhaps one of the best compilations on this topic .
It's highly recomended and strongly advised for anyone interested or involved in the sphere of information creation to visit these places .

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/10/17/information_architecture_wiki_a_wilderness.htm

http://www.iawiki.net/IAwiki

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Other publications from Elmot Liiv found here :

http://staff.ttu.ee/~elmliiv/publications.htm

The fundamental conceptions of infodynamics (E.Liiv)

1. All the Universe consists of systems, which are interactive, interlaced between each other, and with hierarchical many-level and with higher standing more general systems.

2. The systems exist not only in the material (primary, physicalic) world, but also in the secondary reality. Consciousness and products of its activity (knowledges, theories, prognoses i.e.) represent generalized active models of the primary reality.

3. Each systems consists as form of state (apart from mass and energy) of generalized negentropy (GNG), which can be calculated as difference between maximum possible (GE_max) and actually (GE_act) generalized entropies.

4. Differently from physical entropy, the purpose or expediency of systems and probability of their achieving, taking into account all essential factors, should be known to determine GE_act.

5. Information is relation (connection, process) between systems, which results in increasing of GNG at least in one system. The information can be determined according to a certain event or object (purpose) included in other event.

6. All the parts of entropy of consciousness (uncertainty of multidimensionality, knowledge or ideology) must be compensated by correspondending GNG form of state (subconsciousness, knowledge or faith).

7. Each systems can be controlled only if the sum of actual GNG_o and coming from controlling system GNG_c compensate GE_max of the system. Criterion of absolute control:

GNG_o + GNG_c ³ GE_max.

8. Infodynamics researches the methods of determination of mutual influences and transfer of GNG, which is carried out by means of interchange of information and data (knowledge and generalized models) between systems.

9. It is possible to obtain many additional data about motions scheme of information by means of searching of balance or inequality of GNG or GE in a complex of systems.

10.Interlacing between GNG systems and their coincing elements formes united negentropy field, which can be characterized by large sensitivity, information capacity, multidimensionality relatively stream of information. Information characterizes the process, which transfers GNG from one system to another, like as the process of work or heat transfers energy from one system to another.

As promiced the Google Top 100 To Do List is now in the swift implementation phase .

Gmail New Features! http://www.google.com/gmail/help/whatsnew.html

Gmail Notifier is certainly worth mentioning here - direct competitor for MSN & Yahoo Mail Notification Systems .

Google SMS "GOOGL" (46645) http://www.google.com/sms/ - Mobile.yahoo.com seems to be the target here ...

Finally the http://print.google.com/ Google Print - as you might have guessed Amazon.com is now facing the consequences of creating www.a9.com The count is 1:1

Who is next? What's the next service to actualize from the famous "Google Top 100" List ?
Any ideas or suggestions?

This study is an attempt to estimate how much new information is created each year.

Source http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/index.htm

1. Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002. Ninety-two percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, mostly in hard disks.

• How big is five exabytes? If digitized with full formatting, the seventeen million books in the Library of Congress contain about 136 terabytes of information; five exabytes of information is equivalent in size to the information contained in 37,000 new libraries the size of the Library of Congress book collections. Read on...

• How we use information. Published studies on media use say that the average American adult uses the telephone 16.17 hours a month, listens to radio 90 hours a month, and watches TV 131 hours a month. About 53% of the U.S. population uses the Internet, averaging 25 hours and 25 minutes a month at home, and 74 hours and 26 minutes a month at work – about 13% of the time. Read on...