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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		Stir your brain... Posted on 11/17/2002. With "Connectedland", an inspiring essay about the role of interaction design in our Smart Mobs future. In it, he introduces the term "interaction anxiety," this notion of being overwhelmed by all the human-computer interaction we have to do in our daily lives to connect to others. It's a phrase he riffed from Richard Saul Wurman's "Information Anxiety," which dealt with the angst caused by drowning in a sea of information, afraid that you're not finding the items most valuable for you to further your understanding. 0 comments so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "Thoughts on AIfIA and Information Architecture." Next entry: "Nitpicky Academics and the Design of Social Software." Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.