- Hardcover: 277 pages
- Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc; First Edtion edition (1 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0805080430
- ISBN-13: 978-0805080438
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 51,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
... Well ok, maybe not chaos - the central idea is that ordinary people, unleashed at random on the world, tagging whatever they want, however they want to do it, are the most powerful organisational force on the internet. In fact, they're the only force that comes close. Google runs off people's links, Flickr relies on tags and favourites; Yahoo shut down it's indexing program long ago, Weinberger argues, and in it's place, we've got something far more wide-ranging and useful.
I'm studying to become an information professional ("librarian" to everyone else) and a couple of my lecturers mentioned this title; they seemed to find his occasional references to traditional card catalogues infuriating, as if he was accusing librarians of advocating them and clinging to the past (and no librarian anywhere misses card catalogues), but I think he tells a great story about how the internet has reformed itself into the strangely effective mess we skim through so easily every day.
The book could do with more of his thoughts on what's going to happen next - Weinberger seems content with telling us the back-story, and doesn't attempt to make any predictions about the future development of the internet. Then again, given the nature of the beast, that's probably the wise. A fascinating book that seeks to explain how the internet got like this and how it works.
I'm studying to become an information professional ("librarian" to everyone else) and a couple of my lecturers mentioned this title; they seemed to find his occasional references to traditional card catalogues infuriating, as if he was accusing librarians of advocating them and clinging to the past (and no librarian anywhere misses card catalogues), but I think he tells a great story about how the internet has reformed itself into the strangely effective mess we skim through so easily every day.
The book could do with more of his thoughts on what's going to happen next - Weinberger seems content with telling us the back-story, and doesn't attempt to make any predictions about the future development of the internet. Then again, given the nature of the beast, that's probably the wise. A fascinating book that seeks to explain how the internet got like this and how it works.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you don't know what a lumper is, or what a splitter is, you should read this book. In fact, you should read this book anyway - especially if you work in a place with a network drive, do any kind of filing, work with anybody who does any kind of filing.
I'm splitting too much. If you store information in any shape or form, then you should read this book. It's fairly obvious that the future will be full of information and data - this books about that and it's good.
If you like the sound of this, you might like Glut: The Deep History of Information Science: Mastering Information Through the Ages too.
I'm splitting too much. If you store information in any shape or form, then you should read this book. It's fairly obvious that the future will be full of information and data - this books about that and it's good.
If you like the sound of this, you might like Glut: The Deep History of Information Science: Mastering Information Through the Ages too.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this very disappointing. I guess it depends what your expectations are, and I didn't expect what this book delivered. It's chatty, anecdotal, long-winded and theoretical. It reads like the lecture notes for a basic class on information management for general students. I found it long on observation, short on analysis and entirely impractical.
This may be what you want, in which case go for it. It's not a bad book, but it's definitely one for the generalist. If you already know anything about classifying information then there'll be little in it that's new except for a few stories.
If you are new to the subject and have a train journey to occupy then go for it. If you want a how-to guide then you'd be much better off with Patrick Lambe's book: Organizing Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organization Effectiveness (Chandos Knowledge Management)
This may be what you want, in which case go for it. It's not a bad book, but it's definitely one for the generalist. If you already know anything about classifying information then there'll be little in it that's new except for a few stories.
If you are new to the subject and have a train journey to occupy then go for it. If you want a how-to guide then you'd be much better off with Patrick Lambe's book: Organizing Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organization Effectiveness (Chandos Knowledge Management)
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Excellent reading
Amazing analysis of how we have been trying to organize the world's information, for centuries, looking for a universal formula, particularly in the context of libraries. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Claudia Lima
Weinberger says Amazon is a star!
Reading a book on categorisation and classification? Don't tell you friends, if you have any, in my case I have now be labelled under Boring... Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2010 by Hywel Thomas
fascinating
a fascinating book - and an ideal one on which to base an undergraduate semester course on the structuring and retrieval of information in the Google and Amazon age.
Published on 2 Dec 2009 by William S. Torbitt
An amazing journey into new ways of organizing information
More than ever, knowledge is power, and as computerization and digitalization reshape society, the way knowledge is organized dictates how people obtain it and apply it. Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2009 by Rolf Dobelli
What a book - it manages to make librarianship interesting!
So we have a book that is on the face of it about a very offputting subject - the labels that we put on things. Read more
Published on 20 July 2008 by Chris W
Great small work on information organisation
This book is really nice as a primer and fresh-up on how information is organized and what it means to us. Read more
Published on 15 May 2008 by E. Metselaar
Great book if you are interested in information
I got this book because I saw on a friend's blog she was reading it.
It is a great book and I have started citing things from it, for a while I was referring to it as the... Read more
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Published on 9 Aug 2007 by Shirley Williams
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