Lazarus: An Information Design Literature Resource and Discussion Area

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The Prison That Was a Highway: The National Information Infrastructure
This paper explores two metaphors accompanying the birth of the Internet as a mass communication medium: Al Gore's Information Superhighway and Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, a prison ruled with convert surveillance. Read more

Designing an Accessible Web
For many Internet users, the full range of Web content is not accessible. This paper gives a quick overview of the subject of Web accessibility and calls for information designers to join the effort of making the web accessible to all users. Read more

Vannevar Bush and the WWW
Early Internet visionary Vannevar Bush is brought back to life for a fictional interview. Bush discusses how his early vision of the "memex" might provide examples for today's information designers as they attempt to organize information and make it available to users. Read more

The Information Design of Community-Building
What turns a Web space into a virtual community or community network? Sandra Maddox writes an introduction to the subject. Read more