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"Perfectly placed to tell us what's really new about [the] second-generation Web."―Los Angeles Times

Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world―in which everything has a place―are upended. In the digital world, everything has its places, with transformative effects:

• Information is now a social asset and should be made public, for anyone to link, organize, and make more valuable.

• There's no such thing as "too much" information. More information gives people the hooks to find what they need.

• Messiness is a digital virtue, leading to new ideas, efficiency, and social knowledge.

• Authorities are less important than buddies. Rather than relying on businesses or reviews for product information, customers trust people like themselves.

With the shift to digital music standing as the model for the future in virtually every industry, Everything Is Miscellaneous shows how anyone can reap rewards from the rise of digital knowledge.

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“The world is messy, like it or not, and it's only going to get messier as the Web destroys rules and rule-makers. You can either complain about the chaos and wish for the good old days of order, or you can buy this book and understand why delirious disorder will soon make us all smarter.” ―Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail

“David Weinberger attacks the complexity of the real world, not by making it simple, but by making it clear. Once he explains how things can be in more than one place at a time--and make sense--you'll never look at a humble index card the same way again.” ―Esther Dyson

“From how information is organised, to the nature of knowledge and how meaning is determined, this book is a profound contribution to understanding the impact of the digital revolution.” ―Richard Sambrook, director, BBC Global News

“Everything Is Miscellaneous is a rare and mesmerizing mix: one the one hand, it's an essential guide to latest information age trends, one that will be extremely useful for businesses and consumers alike. But the book is much more than that as well: it's a probing and profound exploration of how we create meaning in the world.” ―Steven Johnson, author of The Ghost Map and Everything Bad Is Good For You

“Just when I thought I understood the world, David Weinberger turns it upside down--and rightside up--again. Everything Is Miscellaneous explains the radical changes happening in digital information--and therefore in society as a whole.” ―Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and chair, Wikia.com

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David Weinberger is the co-author of the international bestseller The Cluetrain Manifesto and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined. A fellow at Harvard University, Weinberger writes for such publications as Wired and the Harvard Business Review and is a frequent commentator for NPR's All Things Considered. In 1994, he founded Evident Marketing, a strategic marketing firm on technology issues. He lives in Boston.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0805088113
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Holt Paperbacks; First Edition (April 29, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 277 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780805088113
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805088113
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.72 x 8 inches
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Miles Kehoe
5.0 out of 5 stars The way of the (Virtual) World
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2007
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With a background in enterprise search, I'm inclined to think of David's book as required reading for those who doubt how vital meta-data and community tagging is to quality corporate search. In reality, it's about meta-data.

As other reviewers have mentioned, the book is about moving organization and retrieval of content - physical and virtual - from atoms to electrons. Office supply stores, libraries, and daily life are all limited by atoms: how much space there is in a store; what products should be displayed near other products; and what single specific shelf should a new book occupy given the Dewey Decimal system categorization.

In our increasingly virtual world, based on electrons, little of this matters - fax/copying/printer/scanners can be 'stored' under all of those categories, or a new book can be tagged with every possible related term, regardless of what category the librarian suggests. Web 2.0, Flickr, Wikipedia, Enterprise Search 2.0, all of our virtual worlds, will allow us to tag everything in any way that will help us find it again. And we can make it even better by opening the tagging up to a wider audience - friends, co-workers, even strangers - consider Amazon's suggestion system.

The book is a masterpiece and is a must-read for anyone involved in using - or designing - any part of our virtual and future world(s).
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Fred Cheyunski
5.0 out of 5 stars Suggests the Potential of Organizations as a Result of the Digital Revolution
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2011
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Weinberger contrasts our customary spatial, physical approach to organization in the face of the seemingly unlimited potential based on digital technology. His text suggests new possibilities for expanding our thinking and means of organizing.

There are many examples that show the difference between the placement of items such as in an actual retail store or library vs. the myriad of ways that such items can be cataloged and called up digitally by those seeking them. The implication is that traditional tree structures--organization charts, the Dewey decimal system, some knowledge management approaches--are being superseded by other means of arraying information digitally.

Accordingly, rather than building "trees" that define the relationship of every bit of data in a company, new roles and tasks involve assembling enriched pools of data objects where relationships to one another can change and vary constantly, depending on who is looking at them.

With these new capabilities in mind, Weinberger makes reference to electronic organization charting that has multiple dimensions and is more like showing social networks where one has primary reporting relationships and accountabilities as well as many other connections in "hyperlinked organizations."

Read this book for an excellent primer on this new perspective and its possibilities.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2011
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I really enjoyed the book. As someone who tags everything and is really focused on keeping my iPhoto library organized the concepts presented really appealed to me. I'd jumped into tagging and never considered the fact that it does hide other information. Yet another example of extremes - somewhere in the middle is a happy medium.

A couple of things that stuck with me:
- Wikis reduce emails by about 75%; I want to test this theory in real life!
- The discussion of org charts was interesting. Corporate hierarchies don't seem to make sense. The social connection follows the work connection. These are the important relationships.
- I really like the idea of 'Daily Me' fragments as quoted from Nicholas Negroponte.
- An article is neutral when people have stopped changing it.
- The idea that we're misleading CEOs by telling them it's an information business. Makes me think that it's really a relationship business. Information is used to establish, promote and measure the relationship.

I read recently that 50% of internet users don't understand tagging.

I would like to dive deeper into usage patterns of organization. I see 2 ways of tagging something: (1) tagging the content directly (e.g. delicious) or (2) putting the content into a container - the container is effectively the tab - this could be single or multiple containers (think iTunes)
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Michele Hille
5.0 out of 5 stars Zeitenwandel
Reviewed in Germany on February 6, 2019
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Interessantes Thema
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Hurcho
5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of great observations. Very well written
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Phenomenal book. Lots of great observations. Very well written. Can thoroughly recommend.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Colon classification are really useful..
Reviewed in India on August 1, 2016
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This book just pulls so many things upside down..which is actually true..organization, structure itself take new meanings..This book has inspired me to look at information around me and arrive at new never before looked at interpretations...the examples on Amazon, Colon classification are really useful..
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Laura M.
4.0 out of 5 stars Die unbewussten aber gemachten Strukturen unserer Weltanschauung sichtbar machen
Reviewed in Germany on December 15, 2013
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Das Buch zeigt, wie die Strukturen der Ordnung und Organisation geschichtlich gewachsen und durch Konvention als einziger Weg gesetzt sind. Alternativen Bibliotheken zu Ordnen oder andere Items nach Systemen zu ordnen werden aussen vorgelassen. die eine Ordnung ist die wahre Ordnung. Im digitalen Zeitalter werden diese linearen, "wahren" Strukturen jedoch durch Tagging und Querverweise, durch die Vielfalt im Netz, in Frage gestellt. Was das für unser Denken, unser gemeinsames Handeln und für unser Wissen heisst, beleuchtet der Autor umfassend, einleuchtend und sehr spannend. Auf jeder Seite gibt es einen AHA-Effekt.
Viel Spaß bei der Lektüre....
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