Last night Avenue A razorfish held an Information Architecture Summit Redux - key note speakers gave shortened versions of their talks from a Las Vegas conference. Some really interesting speakers including the very thought provoking Chris Fahey, the IA pioneer and co-author of the bible Lou Rosenfeld, the committed Victor Lombardi, and Frog Design IA/ID enthusiast Michele Tepper.
At the drinky schmooze fest afterwards Andrew (one of the other new Aussie's at work) and I got chatting to Lou Rosenfeld - which is the work equivalent of talking to Bert Newton if you work in Melbourne TV, he basically started IA as a profession - and Lou lives in Park Slope (Brooklyn) around the corner from Andrew, and Lou suggested that Andrew come on down to their bootcamp in the park, and that we come along to the monthly IA meetups, which is like Bert Newton asking you to come over for karaoke! Andrew and I kept exchanging glances. It was all I could do not to run to my desk to pull out my copy of IA for the WWW and ask him to autograph it.
Its weird meeting these thought leaders whose books and blogs you read and you realise they too wear Birkenstocks, ooh and aah when you pull out your iPhone, and create Powerpoint presentations with formatting glitches. We were as giddy as school girls.
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