The power of the new digital disorder: Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger shows how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives.
David Weinberger (born 1950) is an American technologist, professional speaker,[1] and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "a primer on Internet marketing" [2]). Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society.
David Weinberger (born 1950 in New York) is a technologist, professional speaker,[1] and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "
The first in a series of interviews conducted by David Weinberger, author of the new book Everything Is Miscellaneous.David and Cory discuss the advantages and pitfalls of explicit and implicit metadata, tags and etc.
BoingBoing:It's a powerful idea: from org charts to science, from music to retail theory, from government to education, every field of human endeavor is tinged with hierarchy, and every hierarchy is under assault from the Internet.
Everything is Miscellaneous takes all the precious ideas we are taught as librarians and throws them out the window. Structure, order, precise metadata, bibliographic control: gone, gone, gone, gone.
At its heart, David’s book is about what happens when we liberate knowledge from the world of atoms. In the physical world, we can only organize books on a shelf in one way or another - books can’t be in multiple places at once
David Wienberger explains how methods of categorization designed for physical objects fail when we can instead put things in multiple categories at once, and search them in many ways.
Amazon.com: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...
Linked is a great book on scale-free networks.Physicist Albert-László Barabási explain How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means.This bag will collect many related online sources for this book.
Emergence: The Connected Live of Ants,Brain Cities and Software.In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart",takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.
Folksonomy is about tagging, classification, user-generated metadata and digital order.The organic system of organization developing in Delicious and Flickr was called a “folksonomy” by Thomas Vander Wal in a discussion on an information architecture mailing list (Smith, 2004).
A book is written by Gene Smith who is an information architect, blogger, designer, and consultant. He creates a Tagging system within this book.
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Self-organization is a process of attraction and repulsion in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source. Self-organizing systems typically (though not always) display emergent properties.
A network that is scale-free will have the same properties no matter what the number of its nodes is. Their defining characteristic is that their degree distribution follows the Yule-Simon distribution — a power law relationship.Here is a pool of best book on Scale-free network.
David Weinberger is the coauthor of the international bestseller The Cluetrain Manifesto and the author of Small Pieces Loosely joined. A fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for the Internet & Society. As a marketing consultant, he has worked with Fortune 500s.
"Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web is a book by David Weinberger published by Perseus Publishing in 2002 (ISBN 0-7382-0543-5). The book's central premise is that the world wide web has significantly altered humanity's understanding or perception of the concepts of space, matter, time, perfection, public, knowledge, and...
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