One thing about this blog is that it seems to waffle between being a quasi-serious work-related blog for me, or just some place where I can hack around and post a bunch of gibberish. Even the perma-links on the sidebar bear this out.
As far as the work-related angle is concerned, I pay the bills doing information architecture, business analysis, and -- when I must -- technical writing. And it seems that any self-respecting IA/usability guru has their own goddam blog. Here's just a partial list (in no particular order):
And you'd be better off getting your fix of hard-core IA commentary there than here. But I figure I'm turning up at least a few interesting links (viz. my link to the piece on memes and architecture which I thought was pretty damn cool) that you might not run across via one of the above sources. And of course I have to commit my own quirky digressions to blog-dom.
So, this is some of that, plus my ramblings about music, films, books, and whatever else crosses my mind.
Anyway on to the rambling. I made the mistake of wandering into yet another bookstore today and picked up a slim volume titled The Architecture of Intelligence by Derrick de Kerckhove. To compress the back-cover blurb, it's about "creating a new alphabet for the new information space" created by IT. Nothing like a volume that combines the disciplines of traditional architecture and semiotics to compell me to break out the MasterCard. Although when I'll actually get around to reading it is another matter entirely.
Nearly bought some CDs today as well (Church of Danceology which includes Steve 'Silk' Hurley's "Jack Your Body", and a Ministry compilation), but managed to restrain myself. At least that's something.