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David Weinberger’s “Everything is Miscellaneous”

April 26, 2007 at 5:30 pm by K.G. Schneider · 5 Comments ·




David Weinberger’s "Everything is Miscellaneous"

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This just arrived at 5 p.m. today, a few hours after I was on Open Source Radio providing librarian color (alongside Tim Spalding, who provided… thingology color?) for an interview with David Weinberger. I probably wasn’t that interesting, since I agree with David on many points, though I still see uses for controlled vocabularies while David is way out there with leveraging the wisdom of crowds and community-as-author, etc.

I’ll get cracking on it tonight–I’ve read the prologue, and I’m eager to dig into the whole book!

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5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Millie Jackson // Apr 26, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    Is Emma reading it too?

  • 2 pslip // Apr 27, 2007 at 12:45 am

    I am listening to this interview right now and you are great. I keep hoping someone will bring up some classification theory like Rosch’s prototypes and basic level categories.

    And what is Christopher Lydon like?

    Very enjoyable conversation. (Helps that I am writing a paper on collaborative tagging and human classification theory…. don’t ask.)

    Favorite quote of the night so far: “Metadata is cool!”

    Cheers!

  • 3 kgs // Apr 27, 2007 at 9:11 am

    She’s my writing advisor!

  • 4 Tim Spalding // Apr 30, 2007 at 4:47 pm

    Hey. Can I show your cat photo (with credit) on my blog?

  • 5 kgs // Apr 30, 2007 at 5:57 pm

    Absolutely!

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