December 13, 2001: A couple of (admittedly wise-ass) observations about the IA community: 1) (one of) the (many) centers of IA discussion, the SIGIA list, has no archive. This is unspeakably ironic. What it has in lieu of an archive is many, many, many opinions about the ideal way to structure an archive (which I'd link to, but, well, there's no archive). 2) the logo for boxesandarrows.com symbolically represents (to me) the cumulative effect of all the many long threads trying to define IA... The IA community, order-loving as it is, wants nothing more than to put itself in a box.