Product Description

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; Authorities are less important than buddies. Rather than relying on businesses or reviews for product information, customers trust people like themselves.With the shift to digital music standing as the model for the future in virtually every industry, "Everything Is Miscellaneous" shows how anyone can reap rewards from the rise of digital knowledge.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78467 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
"* "Perfectly placed to tell us what's really new about [the] second-generation Web." - Los Angeles Times"

Customer Reviews

A chatty introduction to the subject
I found this very disappointing. I guess it depends what your expectations are, and I didn't expect what this book delivered. It's chatty, anecdotal, long-winded and theoretical. It reads like the lecture notes for a basic class on information management for general students. I found it long on observation, short on analysis and entirely impractical.

This may be what you want, in which case go for it. It's not a bad book, but it's definitely one for the generalist. If you already know anything about classifying information then there'll be little in it that's new except for a few stories.

If you are new to the subject and have a train journey to occupy then go for it. If you want a how-to guide then you'd be much better off with Patrick Lambe's book: Organizing Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organization Effectiveness (Chandos Knowledge Management)

Lumpers are from Mars and Splitters are from Venus
If you don't know what a lumper is, or what a splitter is, you should read this book. In fact, you should read this book anyway - especially if you work in a place with a network drive, do any kind of filing, work with anybody who does any kind of filing.

I'm splitting too much. If you store information in any shape or form, then you should read this book. It's fairly obvious that the future will be full of information and data - this books about that and it's good.

If you like the sound of this, you might like Glut: The Deep History of Information Science: Mastering Information Through the Ages too.

Great small work on information organisation
This book is really nice as a primer and fresh-up on how information is organized and what it means to us. It explains old organization methods, like the one the libraries use and the organization of organisms that was introduced by Linnaeus. It then compares those 'atom based' organization methods with the new ones we can perform with digital means. Of course Amazon is mentioned where everybody has basically his or her own version of a bookstore.

Worth reading if you are interested in taxonomies, ontologies, information organization and categorization.