false 726004 4 <b>Amazon.com</b> 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 miscellaneous. <p>In <i>Everything Is Miscellaneous</i>, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines why the Dewey decimal system is stretched to the breaking point, how Rand McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map (and why Google Earth is winning that battle), how Staples stores emulate online shopping to increase sales, why your children's teachers will stop having them memorize facts, and how the shift to digital music stands as the model for the future in virtually every industry. Finally, he shows how by "going miscellaneous," anyone can reap rewards from the deluge of information in modern work and life. <p> From A to Z, <i>Everything Is Miscellaneous</i> will completely reshape the way you think--and what you know--about the world. 712220 1 5 2007 Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder total:426|5:88|4:171|3:123|2:39|1:5| 426 1576 935 119 3 5 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 14:55:28 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 07:33:50 -0700 2007
Clay Shirky's article in 2005 on ontologies said it earlier, more succintly, and with less self-aggrandizement. Any man (and yes, I mean Weinberger) who gets halfway through a book that he starts by deriding librarians and th...more...]]> 0 3 false false Wed Jan 23 16:44:15 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 16:44:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 17:21:08 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 09:32:28 -0800 2008
(Faceted classification is where something is categorized in more than one place, e.g. how you can put a ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 07 16:27:22 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 29 17:28:13 -0800 2008
This book deserves a read and rates almost as...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 10 17:24:23 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 17:39:43 -0700 2009 Amazon.com has Melvil Dewey rolling over in his grave. In the digital age, it is no longer possible or desirable to classify information in only one category. There is no longer a discrete place on the shelf for each book. Instead, we find the 'miscellanizing of information" in which informa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 29 01:15:07 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 01:49:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 05:11:56 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 05:12:30 -0700 2009
More than ever, knowledge is power, and as computerization and digitalization reshape society, the way knowledge is organized dictates how people obtain it and apply it. In this fascinating book, philosophy professor David Weinbe...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 15:44:58 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 03:33:43 -0700 2009 The Big Switch and David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous tackle the same essential question: what happens when the whole world puts all of it's information on the same network? Carr focuses on the trend toward centralized computing to make sense of mass quantities of in...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 17:47:31 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 17:47:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 16 05:50:22 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 16 05:52:26 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 19:01:32 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 13:54:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 20 08:53:41 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 10:06:50 -0700 2008 Dewey, Wikipedia, del.icio.us and much, much more.]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 17 20:48:43 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 20:48:57 -0700 2008
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Summary: Philosopher Weinberger shows how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives. Human beings constantly collec...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 03 13:17:45 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 18:17:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 09:04:38 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 16:31:11 -0700 2008
I think anyone who works with information, including librarians, software geeks, etc. would appreciate the ideas about ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 06 19:02:33 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 23 12:22:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 29 16:45:32 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 16:56:46 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 07:38:44 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 11:25:32 -0700 2007
In spite of the attempts of traditional thinking to force a taxonomy on the web (I remember, ca. 1996, seeing a 'map' of the internet at a place I used to work), reality has triumphed, and information...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Sep 11 18:45:27 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 18:45:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 19:42:18 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 19:42:18 -0700 2007 more...]]>