Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (865 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0055X5JS0 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Perfectly placed to tell us what’s really new about the second-generation Web.”—Los Angeles TimesBusiness 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. Rather than relying on businesses or reviews for product information, customers trust people like themselves. 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. • Authorities are less important than buddies. 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.. • Messiness is a digital virtue, leading to new ideas, efficiency, and social knowledge
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Ethan Zuckerman said Deceptively deep. One of the central ironies of David Weinberger's new book, "Everything is Miscellaneous", is that a book about classification is bound to suffer from classification problems. Reviewers and bookstore owners are inclined to think of David as a business writer because his previous books - The Cluetrain Man. "Hope For People Caught In The Endless Quest For A Perfect Filing System" according to Ron Tarro. This book speaks to the aching sense of futility experienced by all you organizational freaks. The reason your office or computer desktop folders are never perfect, and as a result you are not perfectly organized, is that you have not had perfect tools. Alas, the world does not fit into nested folders a. "Great but repetitive" according to BobG. An enjoyable read for the first few chapters a very interesting explanation of the changing nature of information and categorization in the digital age. However then it starts to get more and more repetitive new examples are compared to the old ones but the concepts remain the same.Bottom line is I do