[Sigia-l] stats on card sorting thread

[James Robertson]

Hi all,

I'm sitting here at 10pm on a Sunday night,
trying to catch up on my mailing lists.

I started this evening with considerable
enthusiasm: the start of this thread promised to
tackle one of the real problems that I'm facing
in my consulting work, ie:

"How to come up with the right structure for a site,
when that structure might involve having any given item
in multiple locations?"

It started well, but obviously deteriorated fast.
No blame is being laid by me at anyone's door, it's
too late in my evening for that sort of nonsence.

But I am going to "call a spade a spade":

I don't give a toss about dictionary definitions,
or the role of librarians in the modern workplace.

If you can't post something constructive that will
help others, don't bother posting at all.

Only a very few posters were actually providing
links to useful articles, describing their actual
experiences, or providing assistance. To you: my
thanks. To the rest: go elsewhere, I don't have time.

Here's my contribution on card sorting, I don't claim
it to be any great insight, and I wrote it a while
ago, but maybe it's of some use to someone:
http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/cardsorting/index.html

Of course, it doesn't solve the question that was
posed at the beginning of this thread, and I'm still
hopeful of gaining some *help* before the end of things...

Regards,
James

PS. Thank you Karl for the stats, I think they clearly
make the point that needs to be made.