Biographical Information
David Weinberger
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David Weinberger is a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His blog is johotheblog.com, and his latest book is Everything is Miscellaneous (eimisc.com).
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Articles By David Weinberger
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We have been in the Age of Information. What comes next? More exactly, what will we call what comes next?...
The Google Book Search settlement is huge, complex and overall a big step forward. But it's also quite scary. The world of print is about to change, mainly for the better...
The Semantic Web's value will grow as it becomes as inconsistent, ambiguous and imperfect as our own collective knowledge is...
"...now we slap the "wisdom of the crowd" or "crowd sourcing" label on everything, as if to say: "Nope. You got your assumptions wrong. Get 'em right, and we can build the world's greatest encyclopedia, replace network TV and find lost cufflinks...
We will look back and be amazed that we were ever content with having a handful of newspapers, just as we used to have only three networks...
We are very confused about the meaning of the word "information." And that's for two good reasons...
My Kindle from Amazon is fun. It's usable. And when I use it in a public place, it makes me a geek magnet, the way a puppy attracts smiles and small talk. But the Kindle is a big, big step away from showing us what real e-books will do for us....
I'm sorry if you're the guy who says things like "I'm totally in favor of equality for women. That's why I don't see why we have to give them special breaks" when it comes to promotions or hires. Or maybe it's not women.
Education. Government. Media. Business. Science.That's the Jeopardy answer to the question, "What are five institutions whose value comes to a large degree from providing authoritative knowledge?"
My friends and colleagues John Palfrey and Urs Gasser are writing a book about the difference between "digital natives" and "digital immigrants." John and Urs are both at Harvard Law's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and both are excellent thinkers, writers and researchers. This is likely to be a book that starts a long and well-grounded discussion. It's also likely to be a big hit.
Longtime KMWorld columnist David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, recently discussed his new book with Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor in chief.
We all go wrong, and have done so literally since Adam, unless I'm wrong in thinking there was an Adam, or in assuming there's anything true of all of us, or if I got the meaning of "wrong" wrong.
There are at least 500,000 cameras in the city of London, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal, which also reports that you're recorded on average 300 times a day there. Every station has had cameras since the 1990s. Yet life hasn't changed much. Why not?
I'm years late getting to Jack Welch's Jack: Straight from the Gut. I had to read it for a project I was working on recently, and I'm glad I did, but not so much for what he says.
It’s a sign of my late-blooming maturity (my 56th birthday is coming around but I still dress as if I’m going to summer camp) that I agreed to participate in a conference with the CIA...
The solution to information overload is more information ... so long as that more information is metadata. We didn't drown in information the way the info fear mongers predicted in the early 1990s because the information...
I've been crawling through a book my favorite college professor gave me a couple of years ago. It's very hard because no topic causes philosophers to tangle themselves up quite so much as does knowledge. You get a philosopher trying to know knowledge and you will soon be lost in a circle of meta-knowing that spawns its own language before cycling into unknowability.
...Web pages almost always tell us what the destination of the link is about, and often what we ought to think about it.
So, when Tim Berners-Lee issued the call for the Semantic Web, it wasn’t because there weren’t enough meaningful phrases online.
"There's always been information," said a member of an information architects mailing list I audit. I think that's probably not true, and it has implications for what we think our businesses are made out of.
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Knowledge is a question, not an answer
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Q: What's the opposite of gravity? A: Levity.
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Want to know what knowledge sounds like? Listen to people talk.
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To speak and, perchance, to listen
Posted 06 Mar 2000
“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.”
— King Lear
Posted 28 Feb 2000
Managing the unmanageable
Posted 21 Feb 2000
The short answer for why we do it
Posted 14 Feb 2000
David Weinberger responds to a book review
Posted 11 Feb 2000
ClearType is an intermediary step that will make your text-based knowledge literally clearer.
Posted 31 Jan 2000
I have nothing against Libertarians except that many of them seem drawn to it because it gives them a point of view that lets them utter statements they think are controversial but which are merely wrong.
Posted 15 Jan 2000
The pod people are taking over.
Posted 10 Jan 2000
Beware the word "merely" and its cousins "simply," "just" and "only." They are among the most political of words. And they're assassins.
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At this auspicious time, we are all required by local statute and industry injunction to pontificate about the future. So, permit me to make my year-end, century-end and millennium-end forecasts.
Posted 13 Dec 1999
Lurking is the art of staying silent while conversation happens all around you. Off the Web, lurking is sinister. On the Net, lurking is the best way to enter a conversation..
Posted 06 Dec 1999
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To heck with tacit knowledge. (Go for tacit documents instead.)
Posted 22 Nov 1999
The Internet is full of misinformation, lies, statistics, and altered
photographs. The famous are slandered, the gorgeous are compromised, the
unknowns make up stuff just to be noticed. We all know that.
Posted 15 Nov 1999
If people had brands, you'd think they were awfully shallow. "Hi, I'm Arnie, the Place for Puns," "Hello, I'm Alicia, the Melodious Voice Gal." So why is branding any better for companies?
Posted 09 Nov 1999
At the recent KMWorld '99 conference in Dallas I was able to spend some quality time with two of the key people behind a fascinating site, www.iqport.com.
Posted 25 Oct 1999
On the Web, all information is communication.
Posted 18 Oct 1999
Please raise your hand if you're a software vendor and you've ever once said that your "solution" delivers the right information to the right people at the right time. Add ten points if you ever added, in a knowing tone, "...and in the right way." Now
Posted 12 Oct 1999
I've griped about Microsoft's Digital Dashboard (DD) before, but, heck, the right to gripe endlessly about the rich, powerful and obnoxious is the very basis of democracy.
Posted 01 Oct 1999
"The Web Isn't Transforming Business Documents ... It's Killing Them"
Posted 27 Sep 1999
The following article appears in the most recent issue of the Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization (JOHO) newsletter, authored by David Weinberger. Go read the whole thing on the Web, it's worth your time.
Posted 20 Sep 1999
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The dark side of standards development, brought
to you by Jetform and UWI.com.
Posted 01 Aug 1999
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The breakthrough companies look for from KM won't come from "knowledge assets."
Posted 01 Jul 1999
Microsoft's Digital Dashboard is little more than a slick deception.
Posted 01 Jun 1999
Almost all moral reasoning is based on analogies, not principles.
Posted 01 Jun 1999
Easter Eggs aren't just fun distractions -- they're a sign of humanity.
Posted 01 Jun 1999
Here's a list of do's and don'ts for writing press releases.
Posted 01 Jun 1999
Make your mission statement reflect your people.
Posted 01 May 1999
The portal craze both helps and hurts KM, and that's good.
Posted 01 May 1999
Don't we know that KM is about more than just picking technologies?
Posted 01 May 1999
Mass marketing is getting automated -- is that good or bad?
Posted 01 May 1999
Not everything is a portal, says David Weinberger. Life just isn't that simple.
Posted 01 May 1999
Communities are forming on the Cluetrain, stopping at a corporation near you.
Posted 01 Apr 1999
People get work done when they collaborate freely, despite what you may think.
Posted 01 Apr 1999
What's the biggest secret in Business? David Weinberger clues us in.
Posted 01 Apr 1999
Using widgets from Minneapolis, David Weinberger builds a relationship between data, information and knowledge.
Posted 01 Mar 1999
To make your company smarter, make better mistakes, says David Weinberger.
Posted 01 Mar 1999
XML will cause us to write forms, not free-flowing documents, according to David Weinberger.
Posted 01 Mar 1999
What we call knowledge often doesn't involve information or "know how" -- it's just ideas.
Posted 01 Feb 1999
Knowledge sharing is an exercise in storytelling, says JOHO editor David Weinberger.
Posted 01 Feb 1999
Sound it out: companies competing in the Web era had better learn to speak the language.
Posted 01 Feb 1999
Content means nothing if you don't know how to find it or what to do with it. David Weinberger explains.
Posted 01 Feb 1999