Monday, June 7, 2010

Everything is Miscellaneous

I am reading this book, Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, by David Weinberger, Ph.D., for my MLIS Understanding Information class and it is so correct.

Dr. Weinberger, who is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, argues that finding and sharing information in the digitally networked age is subject to the whims of the individual thinker and in order for us to make sense of the information before us, we need to get out of the way. That is, remove the historical linguistic constructs that lead us to information sets because arbitrary navigational cues could negatively affect the integrity of our search.

Look sideways and create your own criteria for what you need.

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