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Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder | 
 enlarge | Author: David Weinberger
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 65425
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0805080430
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4833
EAN: 9780805080438
ASIN: 0805080430
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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 What a book - it manages to make librarianship interesting! July 20, 2008
Chris W (London, UK)
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!
 Great small work on information organisation May 15, 2008
E. Metselaar (Netherlands)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Great book if you are interested in information August 9, 2007
Shirley Williams (UK)
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
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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