How to Make Sense of Any Mess
Information Architecture for Everybody. Based on a book by Information Architect, Abby Covert.
DASL — Data-Addressed Structures & Links
A small set of simple, standard primitives to work on content-addressed data.
DASL — Data-Addressed Structures & Links
A small set of simple, standard primitives to work on content-addressed data.
Convert Documents into Structured, AI-Ready Data | Unstructured
Turn PDFs, scans, spreadsheets and 50+ file types into clean, structured data for RAG and AI agents. Use Unstructured Transform via API or MCP. Start free.
Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies
Computer users organize their files into folders because that is the primary tool offered by operating systems. But applying this standard hierarchical model to my own files, I began to notice shortcomings of this paradigm over the years. At the same time, I used some other information systems not based on hierarchical path names, and they turned out to solve a number of problems. I propose a new way of organizing files based on tagging, and describe the features and consequences of this method in detail.
What makes something data?
This is a question I posted on BlueSky on Friday 11/21/25, inspired by a talk I recently attended about evaluation of “AI” systems. I think…
Information Architecture meets the Philosophy of Information - The Policy and Internet Blog
Advancing the practical and theoretical basis for how we conceptualise and shape the infosphere.
Role differentiation as ignition of a collective information...
Informational active matter shows how measurement-informed decisions produce collective order, so far in systems that reach consensus. We design collective information engines structured by...
Information Architecture: The Data Warehouse Foundation
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Ultra-Processed Information: AI and the Coming Deluge of Noise | Frankly 128
Order Out of Chaos: Patterns of Organization for Writing on the Job
The meaning of what you write isn’t only the the words. The sequence of information, the categories you use, the emphasis you imply through your hierarchy—all of these decisions have a huge i…
Nothing new under the sun: everything is a file
The Unix revolution was built on a key principle: everything is a file. Now, with the rise of AI Agents, LLMs have access to half a century of file-based arcana. The result? Everything is becoming a file again.
The Compendium
A compendium of insights about complexity structured as inter-linked cards by Alex Komoroske
Data Minimisation in Communication Protocols: A Formal Analysis...
With the growing amount of personal information exchanged over the Internet, privacy is becoming more and more a concern for users. One of the key principles in protecting privacy is data...
Information Architecture. Basics for Designers.
The World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information which is hard to imagine unstructured because a human brain wouldn’t be able…
