After a few months at the School of Information, I have a notebook page with the following open compound nouns incorporating the word “information.” While some of these may be familiar and several are quite handy, if many seem like hand-waving to you, you’d be right.
If I had a dollar for every paper I’ve read which props up some information metaphor and then chucks a very few qualitative data points into the resulting information mess, I’d have a nice information lunch.
Note that, even though I’ve been carrying this damned albatrossy list around, I verified each item for mentions and usage in LISA (the Library and Information Science Abstracts). I’d recorded a few disastrous examples which I can define but — since I couldn’t find them in LISA — didn’t list here.
- information architecture
- information artifact
- information barrier
- information behavior
- information center
- information concept
- information context
- information culture
- information design
- information economy
- information gap
- information ground
- information habit
- information history
- information management
- information object
- information path
- information poverty
- information product
- information resource
- information society
- information space
- information storage
- information strategy
- information superhighway
- information technology
- information universe
- information vehicle
- information wave
- information wealth
- information weight
- information world
Brian Kerr » Blog Archive » Half-MSI | 27-Aug-06 at 11:08 pm | Permalink
[...] a bunch of information metaphors, for whatever they’re worth, [...]
Noah Morais | 25-Jul-07 at 3:12 pm | Permalink
Very useful information was found here, thank you for your work.