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I am a Belgian information architect.

Contact me.

• Contact me at petervandijck at gmail dot com (best contact option.)
• Belgium: (+32) 03/325 88 70
• Skype ID: peterkevandijck
• My LinkedIn profile includes a resume and some recommendations.
• Funky Monkey Corp is my company.
• My blog, and me on Flickr, Blip.tv, Delicious, Twitter, LinkedIn, Friendfeed. It's getting ridiculous.

Bio.

Peter Van Dijck is a renowned information architect and author of the book “Information architecture for designers”. He has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone Magazine, and is a regular speaker at industry conferences. He has written about information architecture and usability for O’Reilly and others. After working in London for 2 and in New York for 5 years, he is currently based in Belgium. His clients range from Fortune 500 companies to small internet startups. His special interests include global information architecture and social media.

Personal.

• I am married to Maria Clara Gomez, and we have a beautiful daughter Amelia Van Dijck.

Current projects.

• Poorbuthappy - a social site for travelers.
• Raising multilingual kids - a blog about raising kids in more than 1 language.

Past Projects.

• Mefeedia. I founded Mefeedia, a popular media feeds aggregator as a part of my involvement in the videoblogging world. I sold it in 2007.
• Colombia Migration Project. The Colombia Migration Project is a videoblogging/ethnography project about migration.
• Videoblogging list. I started the very popular videoblogging mailing list together with Jay Dedman in 2004.
• Book. I wrote the book "Information architecture for designers".
• XFML. I developed XFML, an XML specification to share faceted classification systems.
• Faceted classification. I started the faceted classification mailing list.
• IA translation. I started the translations group at the Information Architecture Institute.