“Technical communication and librarianship share a common foundation in mediating information. Technical communicators traditionally have been concerned with the production of information while librarians have focused on the organization and management of information. However, as information and communications technologies have broadened the definition of technical communication and librarianship, they have expanded opportunities and career choices for practitioners in both fields. Technical communicators may now be employed in such fields as information architecture, web site design and development, information design, instructional design, and many more. Increasingly, information and knowledge management have become concepts required for effective technical communication, requiring an understanding of effective organization, storage, and management of information.” (Barbara J. D’Angelo – STC Information Design and Architecture SIG)

“Sometimes a change in technology has implications that are so epochal that everyone must wrestle with them, accommodate them, or prepare for them. The revolution in information technologies known as ‘ubiquitous computing’ (or ubicomp) is the most recent such change, and it is beginning to impact the practice—and the business—of digital design.” (Adam Greenfield – Adobe Design Center) – courtesy of annegalloway

“The concept of information as we use it in everyday English in the sense knowledge communicated plays a central role in today’s society. The concept became particularly predominant since end of World War II with the widespread use of computer networks. The rise of information science in the middle fifties is a testimony of this. For a science like information science (IS) it is of course important how its fundamental terms are defined, and in IS as in other fields the problem of how to define information is often raised. This review is an attempt to overview the present status of the information concept in IS with a view also to interdisciplinary trends.” (Rafael Capurro and Birger Hjørland)

Chapter samples (and more to come soon) – “The age of ubiquitous computing is here: a computing without computers, where information processing has diffused into everyday life, and virtually disappeared from view. What does this mean to those of us who will be encountering it? How will it transform our lives? And how will we learn to make wise decisions about something so hard to see?” (Adam Greenfield – Studies and Observations) – courtesy of petermorville

“This isn’t just about form usability. You can have a very usable form and still violate me in any number of ways.” (Eric Myers – ICE) – courtesy of henrikolsen