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I have been reading up on Web 2.0 applications and consuming them at a voracious rate. It is a very different beast than the traditional User Centered Design-methodology driven-world I’ve been a part of most recently at Orbitz. A few years ago I worked at a small shop where our staff had some common roots with the two Jakes ofthreadless. They did lots of fun social networking stuff and were tuned into things like Bonnaroo as well as people like 37signals.com’s basecamp, etc.

I will be extending and substantially updating this site in the weeks ahead as I take advantage of sites like del.icio.us and build out some of my content, like the links on the side nav over there, through them. Finally, I am switching this blog to feature only design-related items on the homepage. I feel like I’ve been ignoring my own trade while I was doing all this research on accessibility, interaction design and the user interfaces of physical products. While interesting and somewhat relevant, the internet is morphing this year.

Reading about it while not participating in it is not a comfortable or customary position for me. I intend to amend this situation post-haste. Thank you to Tim O’Reilly for this excellent article entitled What is Web 2.0?, which has reformulated the web for me. He shed the proverbial scales from my eyes on what this generation of the web has to teach us.

Now, on to figuring out how information architecture interacts with folksonomy; how to document these interactive AJAX applications. More soon…