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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: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 286,879 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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13 of 19 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:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great small work on information organisation, 15 May 2008
By E. Metselaar "reader" (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This book is really nice as a primer and fresh-up on how information is organized and what it means to us. It explains old organization methods, like the one the libraries use and the organization of organisms that was introduced by Linnaeus. It then compares those 'atom based' organization methods with the new ones we can perform with digital means. Of course Amazon is mentioned where everybody has basically his or her own version of a bookstore.

Worth reading if you are interested in taxonomies, ontologies, information organization and categorization.
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