links for 2008-04-05

"My experience at the BBC has been that once a project team has had an IA on a project then they want one on the next project. A dedicated IA might be a luxury for many websites but having someone who thinks like an IA is vital".

Oooh, I'm actually in the UK for this kind of thing for a change, but entirely unsure as to whether I can subject my ropey old Perl to the rigours of actually trying to develop something that has to be shown to the public in a short space of time...

Time to start working out which sessions I will be at

"When recently digging through every press release I could find about a brand launching a new Facebook App, I started to wonder if this was the new brand wasteland".