[LINK] web information architecture - what are the issues you see?

[Tom Worthington]

At 12:49 PM 15/08/2007, Eric Scheid wrote:
>I'm knee deep in organising a conference for web information architecture ...

Looks good.

>... ask difficult questions about the very structure of how we 
>organise all the many pages of a website ... blather about "Web 2.0" ...

Some questions:

* Web 2.0 provides for interactive applications which are not really 
web pages. So should web design be simply subsumed into the 
traditional computer application design discipline?

* Do social network models developed for personal use really suit the 
workplace and civil society applications? How will they deal with 
conflict in decision making?

* As the web gets used to run just about everything in our society, 
should it be redesigned to be a "safety critical" system?

As an example I propose we provide government, education and housing, 
in a "box" for remote indigenous communities 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2007/07/putting-australian-government-online.html>. 
With a modest expansion and integration of the online services 
already available, most of the government, education services and day 
to day community communication needs could be provided by a web based service.



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