Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
 

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

by David Weinberger

Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place--the physical world demanded it--but now everything has its places: multiple categories, multiple shelves. Simply put, everything is suddenly... (read more)

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It would be foolish to deny that there is a new buzz on the web, a buzz that has been labelled 'Web 2.0'. Whilst there is little doubt that the new social web sites and the tagging phenomena are changing the way that we search for and find information, I think there needs to be a certain amount of caution before we view such unfettered collaboration as a pancea to all our informaiton ills, and unfortunately I think that this book (like so many at the moment) fails to place enough emphasise on...

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