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Recent things eating my time follow:
I have been doing hours of research into the whole library idea, and it looks wonderful. It uses everything I love about my job now, and also many things I would love a chance to do at my job now. It does not require me to be a full-on geek and have a relationship with my computer that God would frown upon. (as do computer science programs)
I have been trying to get in touch with some people or faculty in the Information Science program at University of Michigan (which seems to be a hands down leader in Library science together with internet stuff). I wrote to the rougelibrarian whom I wrote about a couple days ago, and she informed me that she was not the most famous graduate of the UM program (I told her she was the most famous graduate I knew of because of one of her projects I have been aware of for some time) In fact, the man who is considered a founder of the field of Information Architecture graduated from UM and is actually based in Ann Arbor, where he founded a pretty famous IA consulting company. I knew the name, but never knew the relationship to Ann Arbor.
I have been reading about how that famous IA consulting company was forced to close because companies just don't spend money on Information Architecture anymore. I have also been reading about all the people who are IA specialists and out of work. Is it a good choice to study this? Actually the more I read about it, the more it is exactly what I want to study. Sure the prospects sound bleak, but it is still an extremely new field in the US, and guess what.... From looking at Japanese websites, it is pretty clear that it has not yet made it's way to Japan. Hmmm.... I speak Japanese...
Since I am writing to people in the IA field, and I would like to include a link to the bastish net, I have been making changes to the site that my regular 5 readers will probably not notice, but other people might... I would have been embarrassed to show it as it was. Some things I did was correct as much of the markup so that it (almost) validates as xhtml. I also made whatever changes I could to validate as accessible for people with disabilities. I don't think any of my readers are blind, but it is a professionalism issue for me.
The new guy started at work today. I am trying to train him right. Hopefully I can get him to make websites that we can be proud of. As it is I am pretty embarrassed to put the URL of projects I have worked on at my job in my resume. Even though I am responsible for the back-end programming, and database, (both of which kick-arse) what really must stick in peoples mind is the front end design and layout which in most cases is, though not total crap, definitely not something I would be proud of if I had made it.
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