How not to organise information
I’ve recently been telling everyone about a presentation I saw on You Tube by David Weinberger called Everything is Miscellaneous. David’s argument is that in the past we organised our information into neat categories and then we had one category called miscellaneous to cope with those things that didn’t fit. Now with the explosion of information most of information is in the misc category.
This 45 minute presentation by David, and follow on debate, raises some important questions about how we are locked into a physical world’s way of organising, the role of social networks and implicit knowledge, and the importance of findability. Don’t be put off by the electronic introductions.
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