Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Posted on Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
- ISBN13: 9780805080438
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
“Perfectly placed to tell us what’s really new about [the] second-generation Web.”—Los Angeles TimesBusiness 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 virtu… More >>
This is possibly one of the most boring books I have ever attempted to read.
Rating: 1 / 5
I feel like Charlie Brown in that Lucy and the football scene. Finally ridding myself of all copies of Cluetrain Manifesto (skeet shoots, tied them behind my car & dragged them through the desert, held them under water till no bubbles were left), I accidentally bought this book. Dear God, there must be a 12-step program for idiots like me. Once again I got suckered in. DUMB stupid DUMB stupid DUMB stupid.
In a nutshell, friends don’t let friends buy books by this guy.
Clearly. I have no friends.
Rating: 1 / 5
One of the more unfortunate manifestations of the internet phenomena is the flatulent eruption of books purporting to tell us “What It All Means.” This rancid bouillabaisse of cockamamie concepts, hare-brained hypotheses, and half-baked bromides is just the latest example of this sorry trend. If we lived in a more orderly society the purveyors of such errant nonsense would be hauled off to the nearest public square, given a sound horse-whipping for the edification of the general populace, and then be sent off to work in the lower echelons of the food-service industry. As it is, pontificating gasbags will continue to assault the senses of the reading public with odoriferous emissions like “Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder.” It’s a sad world we live in.
Rating: 1 / 5
Pseudo-scientific ramblings that attempt to explain how new ways of classifying digital data will impact society. The book drags along quite a bit. Clearly this book is for “fans of Weinberger”–of whom there appear to be many. Save time and money by watching him speak with a powerpoint presentation on youtube.
Rating: 1 / 5
. . . unlike the Internet, our time is not infinite. So, while the Internet has allowed for total randomness, for the sake of each individual’s time, there needs to be some order. And, while it’s nice to think that tags and other technologies will do this, so far, they have created their own disorder and randomness.
So, what has actually happened is a site like Wikipedia has become our defacto “rule of order”. Just do a search on any topic. Most likely, the Wikipedia entry will be in the top 3. And of course, there is a reason for that: We the people want order.
Rating: 1 / 5