Everything Is Miscellaneous

Posted on 25 February 2018 by David Weinberger

Everything Is Miscellaneous The Power of the New Digital Disorder Download Everything Is Miscellaneous By David Weinberger – kino-fada.fr Mostly I learned that Weinberger hasn t been paying attention.Clay Shirky s article in 2005 on ontologies said it earlier,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 then tries to reinvent Ranganathan while hoping that if he shoves in a couple of nifty anecdotes about the man librarians won t notice he s having to backtrack rapidly has missed the point, the boat, and the cluebus Mostly I learned that Weinberger hasn t been paying attention.Clay Shirky s article in 2005 on ontologies said it earlier,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 then tries to reinvent Ranganathan while hoping that if he shoves in a couple of nifty anecdotes about the man librarians won t notice he s having to backtrack rapidly has missed the point, the boat, and the cluebus.The attitude that librarians don t realise that virtual items can have 360 tagging is nonsensical in the extreme The barest conversation with any cataloguer I was one once myself will make that clear Lib...People like to ask me about books I ve been asked to name my favorite books, the books I would take to a desert island, and the books that have changed my life My favorites change from year to year, I would need an entire cruise ship to fill with enough books to sustain me on a desert island, and while books in general have changed my life, I ve never had any sort of epiphany while reading, at least not that I can recall Until now Reading Everything is Miscellaneous gave me my moment It wa People like to ask me about books I ve been asked to name my favorite books, the books I would take to a desert island, and the books that have changed my life My favorites change from ...As far as I got, anyway, the author has one thing he wants to tell you in this book faceted classification is awesome, and now thatthings are digitized, we can actually use it Faceted classification is where something is categorized inthan one place, e.g how you can put a book onthan one Goodreads shelf, as opposed to in real life where it can only be in one physical location I kept skipping chapters to see if he had anything else to say, but if he did I missed it He does As far as I got, anyway, the author has one thing he wants to tell you in this book faceted classification is awesome, and now thatthings are digitized, we can actually use it Faceted classification is where something is categorized inthan one place, e.g how you can put a book onthan one Goodreads shelf, as opposed to in real life where it can only be in one physical location I kept ...As a librarian, I try to read books about the current evolutionary changes our profession is undergoing This book had been recommended to me by a library blogger who I frequent daily The author was also a co author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, which I found fluffy and empty, mainly because it dealt with marketing and the changing paradigms of business This book, however, was much better.Weinberger takes us through the new digital hyperworld of Web 2.0 and online organization, cataloging, r As a librarian, I try to read books about the current evolutionary changes our profession is undergoing This book had been recommended to me by a library blogger who I frequent daily The author was also a co author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, which I...What I love MOST about this book are the AWESOMELY hysterical reviews from librarians or Information Science IA folk People who subsequently find themselvesandaffected by the very forces they find so objectionable in this book.This book deserves a read and rates almost as highly as the Clue Train manifesto Here s a few choice quotes The result is a startling change in our culture s belief that truth means accuracy, effectiveness requires adherence to clear lines of command and c What I love MOST about this book are the AWESOMELY hysterical reviews from librarians or Information Science IA folk People who subsequently find themselvesandaffected by the very forces they find so objectionable in this book.This book deserves a read and rates almost as highly as the Clue Train manifesto Here s a few choice quotes The result is a startling change in our culture s belief that truth means accuracy, effectiveness requires adherence to clear lines of command and control, and knowledge is po...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 he discusses, and that makes it good light reading for a holiday It s interesting to read this book now, 8 years after its initial publication, and to see just how 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 he discusses, and that makes it good light reading for a holiday It s interesting to read this book now, 8 years after its initial publication, and to see just how much the digital disorder has changed my life in those few short years Much of what Weinberger lauds as new and different is now common sense and normal though I don t know that even in 2007 everything he says would have been startling Asyears go by, this book s value will be just that marking a point at which Western culture and its related knowledge systems changed.I say Western culture because that is the book s mostly unstated focus, and its most significant weakness ...Interesting, but not terrific I guess because it was published in 2007 so what might have been a mind opener back then, it is now a pretty obvious account of the digital disorder The overall argument is that the new digital disorder the third order can bring us a lot of advantages Very briefly, the first order is the one of the physical objects the second order is connected to some cataloged archived information about the object e.g a library card catalogue and finally, the third Interesting, but not terrific I guess bec...Very well presented case for the argument that how we have come to classify everything in our daily lives, from books to animals and pictures to music the Aristolean way is up for question facts are well presented and interspersed with some well made arguments My main beef is that at times it does come across as everything internet related is cool despite, given the date of being published 2007, it was still finding it s way and in many regards still is Like all books there is an element of Very well presented case for the argument that how we have come to classify everything in our daily lives, from bo...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 to use Delicious, just to play around a little Really excited about how Ranganathan applies to librarians work on the web Really great read for librarians, info 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 m...I read this book for an LIS class and it was decent Sometimes I thought it was too theoretical and that the theory was shaky from time to time Many of the examples Weinberger gives are really interesting and he definitely inspired me to look at some things differently.

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25 February 2018

David Weinberger