chi finale

[jaeclectic]

The panel on "HII" was pretty good -- some interesting thoughts, although also a lot of the usual nitpicky debates about the boundaries of various professions / field definitions. I mentioned to someone (well, Aviva, actually) that it reminded me of the annoying tendency of IA-related mailing lists to constantly navel-gaze about the definition of information architecture, and she very aptly responded "no! information architects! fussing about taxonomy!" to which I had to reply "oh yeah. taxonomy. and labelling. right."

Then the closing plenary by Scott McCloud was sublime, as expected.

And OBTW, George Furnas rocks.

Later this evening, I'll have dinner with Peter R and his partner, who is coming up for the weekend. Tomorrow, will try to hook up with Aviva again. After, hopefully, another good night's sleep...

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[eac.livejournal.com]

Indeed, George does rock. Tho he's not always very to the point in lectures.

[jafitz.livejournal.com]

And if I wasn't spaced out, I'd even get his name right (corrected now, I think, although I hardly trust myself, since I had looked it up *before* to confirm the spelling and then typed it wrong *anyway*).

His paper in one of the infovis sessions made me all nostalgic for the mathy parts of information retrieval (which I was good at & enjoyed, even though I'm usually not especially enamoured of mathy stuff). Then in the session on "human information interaction" he stood up and made a statement about i-schools and interdisplinary blah blah which I can't reproduce now but which invoked spontaneous applause from many in the audience including myself.

Also, dead cute. *sigh*