Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital DisorderFrom A to Z, Everything Is Miscellaneous will completely reshape the way you think - and what you know - about the world. Includes information on alphabetical order, Amaxon.com, animals, Aristotle, authority, Bettmann Archive, blogs (weblogs), books, broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), business, card catalog, categories and categorization, clusters, companies, Colon Classification, conversation, Melvil Dewey, Dewey Decimal Classification system, Encyclopaedia Britannica, encyclopedia, essentialism, experts, faceted classification system, first order of order, Flickr.com, Google, Great Books of the Western World, ancient Greeks, health and medical information, identifiers, index, inventory tracking, knowledge, labels, leaf and leaves, libraries, Library of Congress, links, Carolus Linnaeus, lumping and splitting, maps and mapping, marketing, meaning, metadata, multiple listing services (MLS), names of people, neutrality or neutral point of view, New York Public Library, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), order and organization, people, physical space, everything having place, Plato, race, S.R. Ranganathan, Eleanor Rosch, Joshua Schacter, science, second order of order, simplicity, social constructivism, social knowledge, social networks, sorting, species, standardization, tags, taxonomies, third order of roder, topical categorization, tree, Uniform Product Code (UPC), users, Jimmy Wales, web, Wikipedia, etc. |
Contents
Information in Space | 1 |
The New Order of Order | 8 |
Alphabetization and Its Discontents | 24 |
The Geography of Knowledge | 46 |
Lumps and Splits | 64 |
The Laws of the Jungle | 84 |
Smart Leaves | 107 |
Social Knowing | 129 |
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Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder David Weinberger Limited preview - 2007 |
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder David Weinberger Limited preview - 2007 |
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder David Weinberger No preview available - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
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