Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
A Computers, Library Science, Nonfiction book. Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual...
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- Pages: 288 pages
- ISBN: 9780805080438 / 805080430
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Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti. David Weinberger, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
I read Everything Is Miscellaneous by the pool at the Madang Resort while on vacation this week. That was the right setting for a book like this. David Weinberger's writing is typical "general readership" fare, full of stories and interesting bits of history. It falls short of really digging into the academic rigor beneath the ideas... Third order almost sounds like a plan for world semantic domination. I'm hooked. This skinny book gave me some big ideas about how my introduction to cataloging course will feed into the metadata courses I'll take. Gave me a bird's eye view (with some specific examples) of how the semantic web can be put to use for users. I'm starting... "The digital world ... allows us to transcend the most fundamental rule of ordering the real world: Instead of everything having its place, it's better if things can get assigned multiple places simultaneously." (14)"[I]n a traditional tree, an object can be on only one branch. At Delicious, tagging a Web address with multiple tags...
