Everything+is+Miscellaneous

=Everything is Miscellaneous=

The power of the new digital disorder
by David Weinberger, 2007 (New York:Holt) []

146: "If wikis get people on the same page, weblogs distribute conversation - and knowledge - across space and time...The mainstream media at first mistook blogs for self-published op-eds...but the blogosphere taken as a whole has a different shape. Not only will you find every shading on just about any topic you can imagine, but blogs are in conversation with one another...The links from each blog, and the commenters who respond to each blog, capture a global dialogue of people with different backgrounds and assumptions but a shared interest."

media type="custom" key="5186617" Google Tech Talk with David Weinberger during the //Everything is Miscellaneous// book tour

146: "As people communicate online, that conversation becomes part of a lively, significant, public digital knowledge - rather than chatting for one moment with a small group of friends and colleagues, every person potentially has access to a global audience. Taken together, that conversation also creates a mode of knowing we've never had before...these diverse viewpoints help us get past the biases of individuals..."

media type="custom" key="5186611" Video inspired by //Everything is Miscellaneous//

147: "For 2,500 years, we've been told that knowing is our species' destiny and its calling. Now we can see for ourselves that knowledge isn't in our heads: It is between us. It emerges from public and social thought and it stays there, because social knowing, like the global conversations that give rise to it, is never finished."

Further Information

 * More videos (interviews, talks, etc. with David Weinberger)