I’m miscellaneous
I’m an idiot. I was just writing a post recommending David Weinberger’s Everything’s Miscellaneous — which I recommend constantly to editors, publishers, technologists, and investors — and so I wanted to link to my earlier post raving about the book and its importance in society. Only I now see that I never posted it. I’d read the book in galley form and had to wait to blog about it until it was released. But then I must have thought that I had blogged about it since I had talk about it so often (and the usual order for bloggers is to write about things first and then repeat what they’ve blogged in real conversation). So I’m the absent-minded professor. My brain is miscellaneous. I need someone to tag it. I’ll pay particular attention to the ‘missing’ tag. I’m criminally late to this but I do heartily recommend David’s book to anyone who wants to understand the fundamental change in the architecture of information in society, including media, learning, and business. It’s a mind-opener and almost as fun as listening to David himself. So if you haven’t already followed someone else’s recommendation to buy Everything’s Miscellaneous, please follow mine.
Tags: newarchitecture, Tagging
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:21 am
Who’s the publisher, Jeff, so I can order it if my local Barnes & Nobel doesn’t have it yet?
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:22 am
Never Mind…got it…
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:36 am
You’re forgiven, Jeff. :~)
I reviewed David’s book when it came out and have a video with david, too:
http://www.socialmedia.biz/2007/07/short-review-of.html
October 23rd, 2007 at 6:46 am
I’ve read this book, and you can definitely save time and money by just watching one of his many powerpoint presentations on youtube.
Also check out the reviews on amazon. I think an accurate reviews is “A rambling look at an important subject” by Yaron.
Love the cover.
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Great read. I picked it up a few weeks ago and it got me thinking about applying some of the lessons surrounding information on a grander scale.
Humans are always trying to understand their surroundings by deconstructing the world into smaller, easier to digest pieces. Furthermore we crave patterns, categories, and division, not only to help us define the environment, but to define ourselves.
I wrote a post on how this relates to siloing in agencies here:
http://senithomas.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/tearing-down-siloes-does-everything-need-to-fall-in-a-box/
Seni
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