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One of the distinguishing features of Lisp and Scheme is the ability to define macros that allow you to extend the base language with new language constructs. Here are two examples what this actually means and why this is a good idea.Let's take a common idiom from Java: Whenever you want to open a file, process its contents, and close it again afterwards, you have to write code roughly like this:FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(filename);try { doSomething(in);} finally { in.close();}Note how the orange code is the code that you are actually interested in: That's the part that states which file you want to open, that you want to open it for reading, and that you want to do something with the file. The rest is just idiomatic code that you have to write just to make the machinery work: You declare a variable outside of the try block (this is important for the visibility of the variable!), and you have to put the call of the close method in a finally block to ensure that the file is always closed even when an exception occurs.The problem here is that you have to write this code over and over and over again, and everytime you write this code, you have to get the details right. For example, when I was still a Java hacker, I always have put the variable declaration inside the try block, just to get the error message from the compiler that this is wrong. This is annoying - it would be nice if I didn't have to think about this. (I have actually gotten it wrong again in the first version of this posting. Go figure.)Here is the same code in Common Lisp:(let ((in (open filename))) (unwind-protect (do-something in) (close in)))This is not yet an improvement: The orange part of the code is still deep down in other code that just ensures that the machinery for opening and closing the file works. I still have to declare the variable first (here with a let), I still have to use the Lisp-equivalent of try-finally (here it's called unwind-protect), and I still have to ensure that the closing of the file happens as part of the clean-up step of an unwind-protect.However, Lisp gives us a way to get rid of the idiomatic code. What we would actually like to write is this:(with-input-file (in filename) (do-something in))This code states exactly what we want and nothing else: We want to execute some code with an open file bound to some variable, and we implicitly want to ensure that it is closed again at the end of this code fragment.Here is a macro that defines this construct:(defmacro with-input-file ((variable filename) &body body) `(let ((,variable (open ,filename)) (unwind-protect (progn ,@body) (close ,variable))))Here is an explanation of the code:The macro is defined with defmacro and we name it like the language construct we want to build. It takes two variables: a variable name and a piece of code that will give us the filename in the resulting code. It also takes a body of code for the with-input-file construct.The macro creates a piece of code that the Lisp compiler should use instead of the original code that uses the with-input-file construct: We basically define a code template in which the variable, filename and body spots are filled in with the parameters that the macro receives.Some minor details: The progn groups a number of expressions into one - this is similar to grouping code in a pair of curly braces in Java. The backquote, comma and comma-at notations are there to clarify how the parameters should be inserted - that's something that you can better learn in good Lisp tutorials.Although writing macros takes a little practice, it is very straightforward once you are used to doing this. Macros help you to avoid typing a lot of idiomatic code: whenever you notice some coding pattern, you can put it in some macro and then use it instead.Syntactic AbstractionsLet's get a little closer to the heart of what macros actually are: They provide you with a way to define syntactic abstractions. Abstractions are used for hiding away implementation details that client code should not be interested in. For example, in classes you can define private fields and methods for internal use and define a public interface that client code has to go through to ensure that the internal details are always used properly. Likewise, with functional abstractions - closures - you can pass around a function that can refer to variables in its lexical environment without giving anyone direct access to these lexical variables.Many implementation details can be hidden very well with such abstraction mechanisms. However, others cannot be hidden well, and this is when macros become interesting.For example, assume that your language doesn't provide any iteration constructs but requires you to use recursion instead. You can relatively easily build your own iteration constructs - for example a while function - like this in Lisp:(defun while-function (predicate block) (if (not (funcall predicate)) (return)) (funcall block) (while-function predicate block)) This function works as follows: It takes a predicate function and a block of code, also provided as a function. When calling the predicate (with funcall) returns false, the while-function returns. Otherwise, the block is executed (again with funcall) and then the while-function calls itself again.Here is an example of using the while-function:(let ((i 0)) (while-function (lambda () (< i 10)) (lambda () (print i) (incf i))))This code fragment increments i from 0 up to 10 and prints i at each step. This piece of code doesn't look very nice. One reason is that Lisp's lambda construct is somewhat lengthy. Smalltalk, Ruby, and other languages have nicer syntax for lambda expressions, and would make this code shorter. However, even then there is a problem here: We still have to write idiomatic code to write a while loop although we are actually not interested in the idiom. Here, the idiomatic element is the use of a lambda expression to ensure that some code is not immediatily executed, but only later under the control of the while-function. However, what we actually want to say is this, which doesn't contain any idiomatic code at all:(let ((i 0)) (while (< i 10) (print i) (incf i)))And, as you might have guessed, here is a macro to implement this while construct:(defmacro while (expression &body body) `(while-function (lambda () ,expression) (lambda () ,@body)))This macro uses the while-function in the code that it creates. This is actually one of the typical ways to write Lisp code: We first define the functional (or object-oriented, or imperative, or whatever) abstractions, and then we add some syntactic layer on top to make the code look nicer, and especially to hide away implementation details that we cannot hide otherwise.Why is it so interesting to hide away implementation details, like the use of lambda expressions to delay evaluation? Well, we could actually decide not to use lambda expressions at all in our expansion. Here is an alternative implementation of the while macro:(defmacro while (expression &body body) `(tagbody start (if (not ,expression) (go end)) ,@body (go start) end))Yes, Common Lisp provides the tagbody construct inside which you can use go, i.e., a goto statement! Gotos are not a very good idea to use in your own code, but gotos are very useful for generating efficient code in macros. In this second implementation of the while macro, there is for example no need anymore to allocate space for the closures that the two lambda expressions create, because we can simply jump around the code to delay its execution.Of course, this is a toy example, so the little gain in efficiency here is probably not worth the effort. However, what is important is that the "API" for the while macro hasn't changed at all compared to the first version. You still write this:(let ((i 0)) (while (< i 10) (print i) (incf i)))That's one of the important advantages of abstractions: You can change internal implementation details while all the client code can be left unchanged!And this is the whole point of macros: You can abstract away code idioms that you cannot astract away in any other way, and you effictively have a lot more options to change implementation details without affecting any clients.Macros are also one of the fundamental reasons for why Lispers like Lisp's strange syntax so much: The syntax is a direct representation of what is elsewhere called the abstract syntax tree, and the fact that the AST is directly available for manipulation as a very simple list data structure makes it so straightforward and convenient to implement and use macros.If you now have gotten the taste of this, you may want to read some more introductory material about Lisp, like my own opinionated guide, Peter Seibel's excellent book about Common Lisp, or any of the other available tutorials.
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1,481 | jamiequint | 2007-02-28T07:07:33 | Reasons You Should Never Get a Job | null | http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/10-reasons-you-should-never-get-a-job/ | 18 | 4 | [
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Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.”
She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I like it!”
Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”
It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! Anything but that!”
It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.
Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:
1. Income for dummies
Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.
Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?
Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?
Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?
Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.
Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.
This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.
Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.
Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.
2. Limited experience
You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain “experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.
The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?
Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money — or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?
3. Lifelong domestication
Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.
Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?
How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?
Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?
Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…
4. Too many mouths to feed
Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.
Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?
You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.
What a generous person you are!
5. Way too risky
Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.
Morons.
Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.
Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (“You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?
The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.
6. Having an evil bovine master
When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”
Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.
So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.
Who’s your daddy?
7. Begging for money
When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?
Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?
If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”
8. An inbred social life
Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.
If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!
9. Loss of freedom
It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.
As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.
God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!
Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”
10. Becoming a coward
Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions — they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.
When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.
I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!
Still want a job?
If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of the conditioning. But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there. Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.
If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy. If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage. And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.
Happily jobless
What’s the alternative to getting a job? The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means. Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time — so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business. Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it. It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.
And of course everything you learn along the way, you can share with others to generate even more value. So even your mistakes can be monetized.
Here are some free resources to help you get started:
The Courage To Live Consciously (article on how to transition to more meaningful work)
Podcast #006 – How to Make Money Without a Job (audio)
Podcast #009 – Kick-start Your Own Business (audio)
Podcast #014 – Embracing Your Passion (audio)
10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed (article)
How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog) (article)
How to Make Money From Your Blog (article)
One of the greatest fears you’ll confront is that you may not have any real value to offer others. Maybe being an employee and getting paid by the hour is the best you can do. Maybe you just aren’t worth that much. That line of thinking is all just part of your conditioning. It’s absolute nonsense. As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it. There’s only one thing that prevents you from seeing this truth — fear.
All you really need is the courage to be yourself. Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do. The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world. You’ve been told all sort of lies as to why you can’t do that. But you’ll never know true happiness and fulfillment until you summon the courage to do it anyway.
The next time someone says to you, “Get a job,” I suggest you reply as Curly did: “No, please… not that! Anything but that!” Then poke him right in the eyes.
You already know deep down that getting a job isn’t what you want. So don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise. Learn to trust your inner wisdom, even if the whole world says you’re wrong and foolish for doing so. Years from now you’ll look back and realize it was one of the best decisions you ever made.
Abundance
Thinking that you need a job stems from scarcity thinking. The alternative is to align with abundance thinking. This takes practice, especially if you didn’t grow up thinking this way.
Update: Many years after writing this original article, I created a comprehensive 30-day course called Deep Abundance Integration to help you really get into the mindset of abundance. If you practice the ideas in this course – which was a lot of fun because it was recorded live with hundreds of people on each call – you may never need a job again.
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There were a bunch of product demos today at Adobe’s Engage event, but there were a few that stood out and should have a big impact on the startup world. They also happened to be some of the best demos of the day.
Virtual Ubiquity – Rick Treitman demoed their word processor application, BuzzWord, which was built entirely in Flex 2 and looks like it could be a direct competitor to Google Docs. The team focused heavily on making sure pagination and typeography were first class, something Flash has been bad at. They’ve created a great UI around the document workflow and have features like ruler tooltips when embedding assets that help people work with their documents. They are focusing on the collaborative document space so that users can be designated as reviewers, read-only, or actual authors and discuss the document. They are aiming for a public beta later this summer.
Scrybe – Faizan Budar presented Scrybe and showed the features that were in the video that generated so much buzz. He demoed all three major features live and made a point of saying that everything in the video is now working in the application. He showed off the calendar portion of the application, which has a great UI, the “PaperVision” which allows you to print your information into special pocket size chunks, and the option to save content to your Scrybe account from any website. The user interface is clean, useful, and it all works offline. They’ve opened up the beta to a limited number of people and hope to open it up to the general public after their next round of features are complete.
yourminis – Alex Bard, the CEO of Goowy Media , demoed what yourminis is working on. A lot of it has been covered by TechCrunch, but they really dug into Apollo and the API that they plan to release next week. With Apollo, they are building out a widget platform that will touch the web, embeddable properties, and the desktop. Alex took a yourmini widget and dragged it to the desktop straight from the browser which made for a poweful demo. Their API is going to enable developers to create their own widgets on the yourminis platform. They built a Twitter widget using the API that is great, so I think content providers are going to be excited about the freedom that the API allows.
Intelisea – One application that didn’t fall into the category of web startup but demonstrated how far the Flash application has come was an app from Intelisea. The application, built in Flex 2, is the front end for controlling a yacht. It runs on a touch screen interface and allows the user to look at engine stats, fuel levels, weather and GPS coordinates. There’s also a security feature that uses RFID tags to track the people on the boat and sounds an alarm when someone falls overboard. It displays a red dot on a schematic of the ship to indicate where the person fell off. It’s something that will never be seen on Web 2.0, but makes for a fun story when it comes to the Flash Platform.
Engage did a good job of showing how diverse the Flash platform is. There were a lot of great questions about the role Adobe needs to play in the design community and what makes web apps better (it’s not gratuitous animation or UI). And there are a lot of interesting startups using the Flash platform. Luckily we got a look at some of those today.
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1,684 | danw | 2007-03-01T11:44:28 | The Dangers of Infoprefixation (or, More Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture) | null | http://bokardo.com/archives/infoprefixation/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | missing_parsing | More Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture | null | Joshua Porter |
How “information architecture” is defined much too broadly, frames design in the wrong way, and suffers from infoprefixation.
Editor’s Note: (This is a follow-up to Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture. Since I wrote that in November, I’ve had many conversations with information architects and designers alike, and in this piece I’ve tried to really outline the problem: IA at its most basic is the wrong frame with which to approach Design…)
One of the more insightful social design books of the last decade is John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid’s The Social Life of Information (ch. 1), in which the authors suggest that we suffer from “tunnel vision” caused by an over-focus on technology. Certainly, the technological explosion of the Web has brought about huge changes, as Brown and Duguid should know: Brown works at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and Duguid works at UC Berkeley, two of the most distinguished technology havens on Earth.
Infoprefixation
One emergent problem Brown and Duguid describe is called “infoprefixation”, or being over-fixated on information instead of focusing on the people who use it to enrich their lives. Here’s how they explain it:
“…you don’t need to look far these days to find much that is familiar in the world redefined as information. Books are portrayed as information containers, libraries as information warehouses, universities as information providers, and learning as information absorption. Organizations are depicted as information coordinators, meetings as information consolidators, talk as information exchange, markets as information-driven stimulus and response”
This tendency to reframe things in terms of information echoes my frustrations with “information architecture”. Whereas “architecture” started off in the physical world, we now have to imagine (after merely placing “information” in front of it) what it means in the conceptual world. The once solid word “architecture” is now unclear.
The ever-expanding definition of IA
Worse, the term “information architecture” has over time come to encompass, as suggested by its principal promoters, nearly every facet of not just web design, but Design itself. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the latest update of Rosenfeld and Morville’s O’Reilly title, where the definition has become so expansive that there is now little left that isn’t information architecture. One definition in particular sounds exactly like a plausible definition of Design: “The art and science of shaping information products and experiences to support usability…” Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
In addition, the authors can’t seem to make up their minds about what IA actually is as the above definition is only one of 4 definitions in the book! (a similar affliction pervades the SIGIA mailing list, which has become infamous for never-ending definition battles) This is not just academic waffling, but evidence of a term too broadly defined. Many disciplines often reach out beyond their initial borders, after catching on and gaining converts, but IA is going to the extreme. One technologist and designer I know even referred to this ever-growing set of definitions as the “IA land-grab”, referring to the tendency that all things Design are being redefined as IA.
Time for clarity and a return to design
Normally all of this wouldn’t be a problem and we could continue to live while this confusion reigns. But at this point on the Web, when most people are comfortable with it becoming a real and lasting part of our lives, we need solid practices and clear direction. But the more I read anything about information architecture, the more confused I become. I continually ask myself: Aren’t we just talking about design here? And, if so, why aren’t we trying to find a common ground rather than trying to redefine everything?
Brown and Duguid continue:
This desire to see things in information’s light no doubt drives what we think of as “infoprefixation.” Info gives new life to a lot of old words in compounds such as infotainment, infomatics, infomating, and infomediary….Adding info or something similar to your name doesn’t simply add to but multiplies your market value.
Undoubtedly, information is critical to every part of life. Nevertheless, some of the attempts to squeeze everything into an information perspective recall the work of the Greek mythological bandit Procrustes. He stretched travelers who were too short and cut off the legs of those who were too long until all fitted his bed. And we suspect that the stretching and cutting done to meet the requirements of the infobed distorts much that is critically human.”
The Procrustes analogy is apt. When we begin to view human beings through a single lens (information), then the other rich threads of our existence are cut off. If we begin to see people as simply information finders, as the term information architecture inevitably leads us to, then we begin to cut people off when they don’t fit the architecture we’ve created for finding. Joel Spolsky, in his piece Architecture Astronauts, warns against viewing human activities in this way:
“When great thinkers think about problems, they start to see patterns. They look at the problem of people sending each other word-processor files, and then they look at the problem of people sending each other spreadsheets, and they realize that there’s a general pattern: sending files. That’s one level of abstraction already. Then they go up one more level: people send files, but web browsers also “send” requests for web pages. And when you think about it, calling a method on an object is like sending a message to an object! It’s the same thing again! Those are all sending operations, so our clever thinker invents a new, higher, broader abstraction called messaging, but now it’s getting really vague and nobody really knows what they’re talking about any more.
When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all.”
Focus on people’s problems, not information
The danger of infoprefixation is that it recasts human problems in terms of information. It’s a subtle, but detrimental, shift because we risk losing sight of the reasons why people wanted or needed the information in the first place. If we see the world as a whole lot of information that needs to be catalogued, shared, and organized, then the problem becomes one of organization, not one that is based on the lives of the people we design for. It also moves us away from the rigor of design, which is to continually ask: Why do people do what they do?
While it’s fun and academically interesting to talk about the millions of ways to structure information, the entire value proposition of design rests on whether or not the person we’re designing for is successful. Success means that they achieve what they want to achieve. Therefore, we must move away from an information-centric view of the world, as Brown and Duguid argue, and move toward an activity-centric view. This would alleviate the problem of focusing on the information and not the person. When we focus on activities, we are forced to continually consider: “what is the user trying to achieve?” instead of “how do we organize this information we think the user needs?”.
Web applications and the shift toward experience
This is already happening in the form of web applications. Web applications don’t fit into the world of information architecture very well, because they don’t take an information-centric view of the world. They take an activity-centric view instead. And, to that end, web applications look a lot different from much of the early Web. As Richard MacManus and I wrote two years ago “the web of documents is becoming a web of data”. And that data only has meaning when attached to the activities for which it is used.
In addition, this shift is already happening to information architects, who, recognizing that information is only a byproduct of activity, increasingly adopt a different job title. Most are moving toward something in the realm of “user experience”, which is probably a good thing because it has the rigor of focusing on the user’s actual experience. Also, this as an inevitable move, given that most IAs are concerned about designing great things.
IA Scott Weisbrod, in the comments to David Armano’s reply to my earlier piece, sees this happening too:
“People who once identified themselves as Information Architects are now looking for more meaningful expressions to describe what they do – whether it’s interaction architect or experience designer”
Scott’s examples are curious in that they don’t suffer from infoprefixation. This is not an aberration, but yet another signal that IA as it has lived is dying.
Published: March 1st, 2007
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1,722 | Harj | 2007-03-01T15:55:15 | How do you build the perfect local community Web site | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/02/28/will-outsidein-nail-the-community-web-site-maybe/ | 1 | 2 | [
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How do you build the perfect local community Web site — with news, events, comments and more?
If you manage to, it will be a grand slam. It becomes the talk of the town, people spend more time going there, and local advertisers spend money there.
A wave of companies have tried, but failed. But Outside.in, a new Brooklyn, NY start-up is looking very good — as good, if not better than any we’ve seen so far. Its visual presentation is nice and simple (see screenshot at bottom). It uses AJAX and other technologies to improve upon efforts preceding it.
Here’s the background: Newspapers have largely dropped the ball. A dozen or so Internet companies have tried to adapt the community concept online, but none have nailed it. There’s Yelp, which specializes in reviews of bars and restaurants. There’s Judysbook, which began with a broader community feel, but has since moved toward shopping. There’s Insiderpages, which is struggling, and focused on business listings. Smalltown focuses on local business, too. Topix gives you community news. Backfence gets closer, as does ePodunk to coverage of wider community events — but their execution and user interfaces have remained unimpressive. Craigslist provides a local marketplace, but stops there.
Outside.in takes both existing content (from local bloggers, city governments, movie listings) and user generated content, and packages them into local sites.
For each town, Outside.in lets you see stories, comments, places and “neighbors,” or registered users. It has one useful, powerful feature we haven’t seen before: You can switch the focus of your region easily — using a map feature at the top left of your region. This lets you zoom in or out to include more or less surrounding regions or cities — and the information, news, events and comments all adjust in real time.
So you can limit a search for crime to Park Slope, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. Then you can search for Italian restaurants across the entire city. Or you can look for poetry readings in Park Slope and surrounding neighborhoods. All by just scrolling within a map.
There’s a lot to look at here. Outside.in provides a URL for each city (it adds a +1 to the URL if you zoom out and see a mile of surrounding area, etc), but also for each place. For example, there’s an entry for the Whole Foods in Brooklyn, which is under development, and creating considerable community debate. People can go to the URL and see the latest stories by local bloggers, and can submit their own comments.
In this way, Outside.in wants to be a Wikipedia for local places. How does it monitor the comments and entries? Well, like Wikipedia, it has the crowd controllers. Of its eight full-time employees, three are chaperoning the site, and 12 more freelancers are helping out.
It is early days, and it is a little buggy. For example, in Palo Alto, Calif., some “top places” are actually based in places like Mountain View (in part, because Outside.in is still figuring out how to deal with regions like the Bay Area where cities merge into each other, and because it wants to show places with buzz within ten miles from you).
Founder Steven Johnson gave us a demo today. He was the co-founder of the online magazine FEED and community site, Plastic.com.
Hollywood producer Andy Karsch, and John Seely Brown seed-funded the company with $200,000. Yesterday, the company announced it raised $900,000 more from Union Square Ventures, Milestone, Village Ventures and individuals Marc Andreessen (Netscape co-founder), Esther Dyson, George Crowley, John Borthwick and Richard Smith.
This will be fun to watch. We’ve been waiting for a decent site to come along. While Outside.in has a long way to go, it is looking very smart.
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