About this title: Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world - in which everything has a place - are upended. In the digital world, everything has its places, with transformative effects: Information is now a social asset and should be made public, for anyone to link, organize, and make more valuable; There's no such thing as "too much" information. More information gives people the hooks to find what they need; Messiness is a digital virtue, leading to new ideas, efficiency, and social knowledge; ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Date Published: 2008-04-29
ISBN-13:9780805088113ISBN:0805088113
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Times Books
Date Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN-13:9780805080438ISBN:0805080430
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Times Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780805080438ISBN:0805080430
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780805088113ISBN:0805088113
Description: New. Charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world-in which everything has a place-are upended. This book shows how people can reap rewards from the rise of digital knowledge. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780805088113ISBN:0805088113
Description: Business visionary and bestselling author Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Times Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780805080438ISBN:0805080430
Description: New in new dust jacket. First printing, 2007 Henry Holt&Co., Hardcover, Unclipped dustjacket. Everything is Miscellaneous: the Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger, New read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: HENRY HOLT & CO
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780805080438ISBN:0805080430
Description: Business visionary and bestselling author Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. read more
"An amazing journey into new ways of organizing information
More than ever, knowledge is power, and as computerization and digitalization reshape society, the way knowledge is organized dictates how people obtain it and apply it. In this fascinating book, philosophy professor David Weinberger chronicles the history of changes in access to knowledge. He shows how Internet-based enterprises such as iTunes and Wikipedia reflect new rules of knowledge organization. This intellectually provocative and well-researched book explains the true impact of the information revolution. The only thing missing from this original, incisive and entertaining workbook is a glossary. While some readers may need other sources of information for certain technical definitions, getAbstract considers this book a must-read for anyone who wants to learn how the knowledge revolution has reshaped business and society."
"This author makes some excellent arguments for the wisdom of the tags on the internet and the potential they have for re-ordering anything at a stroke of the keys. I really enjoyed his humor and his tales about classifiers such as Dewey (Dui to his pre-professional friends), Ranganathan, Mendeleev and Railsback. Taking organization out of a two-dimensional model on paper(s) and putting into machines with the ability to sift, sort, and amaze at the juxtapositions that come into focus by the large numbers of unconnected users who have named some totally unrelated things in similar ways makes the work of knowledge gathering seem a beautiful and organic process whose value will enrich the world immensely.
I liked this book and, having not spent a lot of thoughtful time on tags and metadata, it was very useful. The author helped me think more about the internet as a shifting land of ideas in which adding content helps refine and define the already existing content.
BUT, what I kept thinking about while reading was that this book was about ordering and not really about disorder. I flinched every time the author seemed to privilege the metadata and bytes over the jumble of photos in my closet. I understand his point in seeking order, but I felt a little cheated by the title he chose and I kept hoping for his revelation of the secret that would make of the internet a place where I could find the serendipity I love in the physical world, in which I always go to the back of a store first to look at the sale rack, where I know I will find the most random collection of things available in a shop - the overlooked, imperfect and potential-laden objects that share the tag of what?... of having been in the store the longest, perhaps. I wanted to learn how to find the items on the internet that exist without any tags because they are as yet un-ordered, potential-laden, lacking a tree of classification. I wanted to find out how to spread a net and find the unlikely to be on the front page, the real miscellany."
"This book was dedicated to librarians; today many of them employed by the variety of industries as the "Knowledge specialists". This book explains why this change in title is happening .The book is about our relation with information and how we access and categorise knowledge differently in the digital era. It is about a move from order to miscellaneous, from Dewey system to numerous databases, social networks and on-line encyclopedias. It is about chaos that creates an amazing surge in knowledge, information and thought process. Here we see the lesson from Wikipedia, the miscellaneous collection of anonymous authors that open to discussion, editing and collaboration. Wikipedia does not pretend to be 100% perfect, recognises its weak points and open to contribution. Another lesson is from Amazon with different way of presenting information, offers to make lists, reviews and suggestions. In this new digital time users are in charge of organisation of information. There is much more mess in this virtual world and there are numerous interactions on-line - all of it creates a new world of knowledge."
"His thesis is that the information available on the web is very different that what preceded it. Partly because now more information is better---you can have more info about a thing than the thing itself, and that's still good. And that's better because each individual can arrange info to suit their own needs. Nobody's dependent on someone else to put it "right," and the physical world doesn't get in the way of putting things on the same "shelf." A long and interesting defense of Wikipedia. And yet, I got the feeling that he had the one idea, and he fit the data to that idea more than he shaped the idea to fit the data. (Of course, I could be wrong, but that's what it sounded like to me, and that's why I can't rate it higher.)
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