Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is a 2007 book by American technologist and commentator David Weinberger. In it, he describes the evolution of the classification of information and information science, as the Internet becomes a widespread part of people’s lives."

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  • Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is a 2007 book by American technologist and commentator David Weinberger. In it, he describes the evolution of the classification of information and information science, as the Internet becomes a widespread part of people’s lives. The book touches on such subjects as folksonomy and folk taxonomy, social bookmarking, tagging, and the Semantic Web. Some of the websites mentioned as embodying different aspects of this move to digitally categorized information include Wikipedia, Amazon.com, Google Maps, del.icio.us and Flickr. Weinberger suggests that digitizing information will radically change the way people think. Human beings are accustomed to classifying physical objects. A book can occupy only one place on a shelf, even if it pertains to many different topics. Thus, we have come to think in mutually exclusive categories, often arranged in hierarchies. These categories reflect a simplified, incomplete view of reality. In contrast, digitized information can have any number of links attached to it. Users are freed from the one-object-one-label view of the world. Removing information from a physical form allows us to focus more on its relationships to other information, a way of thinking that better reflects the complex nature of reality. The author also used the information in the book to present a Google Tech Talk in early 2007." (en)
  • Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is a 2007 book by American technologist and commentator David Weinberger. In it, he describes the evolution of the classification of information and information science, as the Internet becomes a widespread part of people’s lives. The book touches on such subjects as folksonomy and folk taxonomy, social bookmarking, tagging, and the Semantic Web. Some of the websites mentioned as embodying different aspects of this move to digitally categorized information include Wikipedia, Amazon.com, Google Maps, del.icio.us and Flickr. Weinberger suggests that digitizing information will radically change the way people think. Human beings are accustomed to classifying physical objects. A book can occupy only one place on a shelf, even if it pertains to many different topics. Thus, we have come to think in mutually exclusive categories, often arranged in hierarchies. These categories reflect a simplified, incomplete view of reality. In contrast, digitized information can have any number of links attached to it. Users are freed from the one-object-one-label view of the world. Removing information from a physical form allows us to focus more on its relationships to other information, a way of thinking that better reflects the complex nature of reality. The author also used the information in the book to present a Google Tech Talk in early 2007. (en)
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  • ISBN 0-8050-8043-0 (en)
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  • Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (en)
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  • Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is a 2007 book by American technologist and commentator David Weinberger. In it, he describes the evolution of the classification of information and information science, as the Internet becomes a widespread part of people’s lives." (en)
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  • Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (en)
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