In response to Everything is Miscellaneous Book Review, Nathan Ketsdever asked Kevin Donlan a few questions in the comments about Everything is Miscellaneous and Kevin responded in full…
No Comments » Posted on September 11th, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, jumps all over the place for the entirety, almost in a “miscellaneous” way, author David Weinberger brings his point together nicely in the end. Weinberger starts his discussion off with a topic that is all around us; information and how it is sorted.
7 Comments » Posted on September 7th, 2007 by Kevin Donlan
I read the Cluetrain Manifesto when it came out and have been a fan of David Weinberger ever since. David’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, explores an issue that is near and dear to my heart: the semantic web. My favorite podcast, Radio Open Source, had a show about the semantic web feature David Weinberger on emergent libraries, the semantic web, folksonomy, the wisdom of crowds, and the new nature of categorizing, finding, searching, reading, researching, and defining, based on the concept of “bottom up” categorization in the form of foksonomic tagging and attention data rather than “top down” taxonomic strict categorization by experts-as-gatekeepers. Read more…
No Comments » Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
In response to a comment from Jay question, “Do you think this folksonomic language will evolve from the collective conversations of myriad users, or will a few “prime movers” establish the vocabulary?,” I replied, “Folksonomy is an emergent system of organization. The patterns, trends, and arc are not designed, they emerge.” Read more…
No Comments » Posted on May 27th, 2007 by Chris Abraham
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