Favorite Quote: A quote I found interesting was what Medill said about customers movements with the store. "In a physical store, ease of access to information can be measured with a pedometer, and each step i precious.
This introduction to information layout reminded me of when I was in staples last week and literally did the exact steps Medill described. I walked in about 9-12' and then stood and scanned the area for the most relevant information.
Chapter 1: This chapter talks mostly about understanding the new order of a digital world. It discusses the way we through out old notions in order to bring new ones into our digital lives.
Favorite Quote: "The digital revolution in organization sweeps beyond how we ding odd photos and beyond how we organize our businesses' information assets."
This chapter reminded me about how I organize my digital life. When I was a sophomore in college I used to spend hours organizing my itunes library so that it was both well organized and visually stimulating. I found it interesting to see the way that order makes so much more sense to me personally than most other formats.
Chapter 2: This chapter is mainly focusing on alphabetization and how it became what it is today, and further more, the way it effects our lives in both the physical and digital world. The chapter discusses the origins and meanings of our well know alphabet.
Favorite Quotes: "Arbitrary organizational schemes such as alphabetization make a virtue out of ignoring the joints. But our categorizations of animals into species, species into races, animals into sexes, heavenly bodies into planets, and atoms into elements reflect real, existing joints in nature..."
This reminds me of when I am trying to organize random files for the semester that I cannot categorize due to there lack of reference to any other files I have. It seems that I tend to take them from miscellaneous to alphabetical in order to make them referenced later.
I do like your connections to real world examples here. Work a bit more on getting to the nuances of the summary. Like I said in class today, don't just tell me it's about apples and oranges, tell me what specifically the deal is w/ those apples and oranges :) I'm curious, as per your comments on Chapter 1, if your generation feels you're throwing out any old forms of organization for new forms? I know I am, but I'm 10 years + older than ya'll, which in this rapidly moving technological world, is huge.
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