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Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (Hardcover)

by David Weinberger (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc (1 May 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0805080430
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805080438
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 90,374 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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2.0 out of 5 stars A chatty introduction to the subject, 11 Oct 2008
By B. Warsop (West Yorkshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (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)
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12 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book if you are interested in information, 9 Aug 2007
By Shirley Williams (UK) - See all my reviews
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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 "book on tagging" but it is much more than that, it talks about the way information is organised and the problems such organisation brings with it.
The final words are:
"The world won't stay miscellaneous because we are together making it ours".
I have one gripe with the book it is written from an American point of view and assumes that the reader is also American. For example near the beginning it talks of "the Civil War", now lots of countries have had such strife, England had one back in the 1600s, Spain had one in the 1930s, and there are many others.
Not with standing that I do recommend reading it if you have any interest in information and how it is ordered.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars What a book - it manages to make librarianship interesting!, 20 Jul 2008
So we have a book that is on the face of it about a very offputting subject - the labels that we put on things. But by the time you have finished reading this tour around the world as we live it - and as we are about to live it, we realise just how important those labels really are.

Have you ever thought about how a Staples organises itself? Have you ever thought about where we are going with all these data that we collect about the world? And have you ever wondered how a shopkeeper who owns a store that is apparently complete chaos has gone about sorting everything out?

The thing with David Weinberger is that he really knows how to write. These are well chosen examples that have you turning page after page and then thinking about what you have learned for months or even possibly years to come. Put simply, Weinberger knows how to write. One dreads to imagine how a book on this topic might have turned out under the pen of a less gifted author...

Let's just say that if you thought about reading The Long Tail, then you definitely should - but you should read Everything Is Miscellaneous first!
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