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	<description>James Melzer's blog on information architecture &#38; interaction design</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Crash Course in Organizing Your Email</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the unavoidable features of modern professional life is a never-ending stream of email. Over the years I have come up with a few tricks that really help me stay at email nirvana: &#8220;inbox zero.&#8221; People around here tease me about it, but I have a very tidy inbox. I thought I would share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rant About Application Customization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, new rule! If I select the same preference customization when an application starts ten consecutive times, that application must remember and execute that customization permanently. If not, I get ten dollars from the manufacturer for every subsequent failure. It should remember it on the first try. But ten! Ten is insulting. I think this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NBC Pulls Out of iTunes Deal</title>
		<link>http://jamesmelzer.com/personal/nbc-pulls-out-of-itunes-deal</link>
		<comments>http://jamesmelzer.com/personal/nbc-pulls-out-of-itunes-deal#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I apparently missed this news back in December. I have been re-watching seasons 1-3 of Battlestar Galactica in anticipation of the fourth and final season. I went to iTunes to sign up for the season pass of downloads&#8230; and it&#8217;s gone. Apparently NBC wanted $4.99 per episode and Apple said no. In fact, Apple said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Tagging (from the archive)</title>
		<link>http://jamesmelzer.com/findability/on-tagging</link>
		<comments>http://jamesmelzer.com/findability/on-tagging#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I taught a class on tagging for Vera Rhoads at the University of Maryland Graduate School back in 2006. It was an introductory-level presentation, aimed at covering the basics. Last year, I presented a similar presentation on classification, tagging and search.


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		<title>Search Presentation (from the archive)</title>
		<link>http://jamesmelzer.com/findability/search-presentation</link>
		<comments>http://jamesmelzer.com/findability/search-presentation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have given versions of this information retrieval talk for five or six semesters at Thom Haller&#8217;s USDA Graduate School class on Information Architecture. I always enjoy the class, since Thom attracts folks with an interesting range of experience.


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		<title>Enterprise Content Management and Federal Enterprise Architecture (from the archive)</title>
		<link>http://jamesmelzer.com/content-management/ecm-and-fea</link>
		<comments>http://jamesmelzer.com/content-management/ecm-and-fea#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While doing a little housekeeping on my site I rediscovered this presentation I did a couple years ago on Enterprise Content Management and Federal Enterprise Architecture. It was for the Gilbane conference on content management technologies in government. My notes from the conference are also available.


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		<title>Is there no plural form of &#8216;Maybach&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://jamesmelzer.com/personal/is-there-no-plural-form-of-maybach</link>
		<comments>http://jamesmelzer.com/personal/is-there-no-plural-form-of-maybach#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday, while at the local California Tortilla, we spied a Maybach parked illegally in front of our local Starbucks. For those who have never heard of the Mayback, they are seriously rare and seriously expensive. It is a huge Mercedes-built luxury sedan for the uber-rich (background: the Maybach was Daimler&#8217;s response to BMW purchasing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adaptive Path MX East Day 2 (Part 2) - impressions and notes</title>
		<link>http://jamesmelzer.com/experience-design/adaptive-path-mx-east-day-2-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://jamesmelzer.com/experience-design/adaptive-path-mx-east-day-2-part-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of my notes from Day 2 of MX East.
Brendon Shauer of Adaptive Path gave a talk on the Long Wow, planning and staging a great sustained experience. (It sounds like a sexual self-help talk, but wasn&#8217;t). His major points were clear and resonated well. However, saying these things and doing them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adaptive Path MX East Day 2 - impressions and notes</title>
		<link>http://jamesmelzer.com/experience-design/adaptive-path-mx-east-day-2-impressions-and-notes</link>
		<comments>http://jamesmelzer.com/experience-design/adaptive-path-mx-east-day-2-impressions-and-notes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day 2 was just as satisfying as day 1. As with the post I did about MX East Day 1, this is a stream of consciousness ramble rather than a deep reflection on the proceedings.
Mark Jones of IDEO started the day with a loosely joined series of experience design insights. He described the &#8216;new customer,&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adaptive Path MX East Day 1 - impressions and notes</title>
		<link>http://jamesmelzer.com/experience-design/adaptive-path-mx-east-day-1-impressions-and-notes</link>
		<comments>http://jamesmelzer.com/experience-design/adaptive-path-mx-east-day-1-impressions-and-notes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start by saying that MX East was the best conference I have ever attended. It was fairly expensive compared to other conferences I regularly attend, but overall the value I got from the experience was well worth it. It included room and board, which were both quite pleasant. And it included a number [...]]]></description>
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