Alpha Publicity
In our first week, we introduced the concept of memography™ and the memetic web™ to Peter Morville, David Weinberger, and Steve Krug (October 25).
This week we sent introductory emails to a number of key individuals who influenced the development of the basic concepts.
Library Science - Marcia Bates, Kathryn La Barre, Joan Mitchell, Elaine Svenonius, Arlene Taylor.
Information Architecture - Lou Rosenfeld, Peter Merholz, Eric Reiss (IAI Board)
Information Retrieval - Stephen Levin, Mark Sanderson (ACM-SIGIR)
Knowledge Management - Tom Davenport, John Sowa, Etienne Wenger
Taxonomy - Joseph Busch (and Ron Daniels), Seth Earley
Search Engines - Stephen Arnold, Avi Rappaport
Semantic Web - Tim Berners-Lee
Content Management - Tony Byrne, Martin White
User Interface - Jared Spool (and Joshua Porter)
Technorati - Dave Sifry
