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Someone else (Marcia/allthesedarnbooks, maybe?) read Everything is Miscellaneous earlier and it did sound good - now you've made me really want to read it! Lots of relevancy to work stuff so it's great to hear it's actually a good read too.

52) Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger. This was a fun book. Its central idea is that digital information can be organized in fundamentally different ways than previous information formats. Basically- before, with what Weinberger calls 1st and 2nd order organization, ...

... & Machteld van Gelder 4. Vrouw met PIT / Suzanne Unck 5. Crisis checklist / Marieke Henselmans 6. Everything is miscellaneous / David Weinberger 7. Welke kleur heeft jouw parachute / Richard N. Bolles 8. Computerproblemen oplossen voor Dummies / ...

52) Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger. 53) Linked by Albert-Laszlo Barbasi. I need to review these two, but don't have the time at the moment. In the midst of massive school-related stress....

... get past the dating, I'd say this book was 4 stars. If not, maybe 2 1/2 or 3? I'm currently reading (also for class) Everything is Miscellaneous, which is on a similar subject and is actually very good (page-turning good, even) (and written in 2007 - ah, using amazon and itunes as ...

... I think information should be free (*), so I agree with #23. I'm a fan of Project Gutenberg. (*)To quote from Everything Is Miscellaneous: "Information doesn't just want to be free, it wants to be miscellaneous." ;)

... Prejudice. Can't get enough Austen, I suppose. Then there are the books for work: Google Apps: the missing manual, and Everything is Miscellaneous. Busy. I agree with others re Tana French. Her books are great, and I can't wait for her next one.

... excellent question and discussion in terms of shelf-browsability and work-findability. As pointed out in Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous the problem is that a singular physical book can only go in ONE physical location. Pre-LT I ran into this issue so many times in my own library ...

... & Machteld van Gelder 4. Vrouw met PIT / Suzanne Unck 5. Crisis checklist / Marieke Henselmans 6. Everything is miscellaneous / David Weinberger 7. What colour is your parachute/ Richard N. Bolles 8. PC troubleshooting for dummies / Dan Gookin< ...

... (see also #3, #9, #16, #36, et al). If this is to be cataloging for the future, not the past, we need to remember that Everything is Miscellaneous, and that we have the power to do things differently.

... for them. There's a terrific discussion of the potential of tagging and the use of social information networks in Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger. I don't know too many librarians who have read it. Your comment about remembering that "the model is not the thing it ...

I, too, gave up on Eat, Pray, Love. In the past couple of years, I've also given up on Everything is Miscellaneous and Fair and Tender Ladies. Usually I'll stick with a book, even if it isn't grabbing me, because it's rare I'll commit to read something I'm reasonably certain I won't like. I ...

... 2.0 are like mangos to the apples of traditional information handling. A very interesting discussion of the issues is in Everything is miscellaneous: the power of the new digital disorder by David Weinberger. I don't think 2.0 devalues the information profession. The information ...

18. Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis 19. Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger

... for open access to research and scholarship by John Willinsky # Ambient Findability by Peter Morville # Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger # The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet by D ...

The only thing I remember reading recently that addressed the question was David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous. He takes the opposite side of the argument, if I recall correctly. He has a profile on-site, so it might be helpful to send a quick question to him.

... the subject. I think a few of the more obvious choices at this point would be - Wikinomics ~ Don Tapscott Everything is Miscellaneous ~ David Weinberger Republic.com 2.0 ~ Cass Sunstein Here Comes Everybody ~ Clay Shirky The Long Tail: Why the Future ...

... to it - as long as you're willing to throw yourself into the story and not ask too many questions, it's good fun! 37. Everything is miscellaneous by David Weinberger : work-related read, which is never as much fun! But still an interesting read, covering how we organise information and ...

ETIM Everything is Miscellaneous Tucking Yes, I meant that you could have members classify something as being about "photography" and put that under "art" later. Not idea, though. BISAC I don't think anyone is suggesting BISAC without any further levels. But ...

... out of order. The last one read, "The Wamsutta Wolf", was the most disturbing and one of the best. Still reading Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger. Still really enjoying it. Started Ballad of the Sad Cafe: and Other Stories by Carson McCullers. Now I've read the Oth ...

... and finally picked it up. I have to take it slow and do some much lighter reading along with it. Last night I started Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger. Too funny to see quotes from a "foremost alphabetization historian". This is good stuff and library geekdom on parade. O ...

21) Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger - As a librarian, I approached this book with some dread. The book discusses how we are moving away from professional authority control to group authority control...think wikipedia, social tagging networks, etc. Though I am thrilled that ...

... choose. This and other weaknesses of such systems are covered by Clay Shirky's "Ontology is Overrated" and Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous. Ultimately, my argument for a new shelf-order system is about the antiquated nature of Dewey, and its un-free state.

... you're spamming. Second, the whole plan is deeply flawed, and a throw-back to the mid 90s. I recommend checking out Everything is Miscellaneous.

... Jennifer Chang. It was wonderful getting lost in her pages: like floating on the ocean. Now I'm working my way through Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger: seems relevant to LT users :-)

... ich die nebenan beschrieben "Touchstones" ausprobieren. Sie werden wohl eine Verlinkung bewirken. David Weinberger: Everything is Miscellaneous. Aha: wenn man das so schreibt, bekommt man das Zitat rechts angezeigt und muss nur mehr draufklicken.

I think I have one extra copy of Everything is Miscellaneous hanging around. (I'm not positive; I actually annotated two copies, so that makes it hard.) How about I inscribe a copy to you? Have you read it?

David Weinberger (Everything is Miscellaneous) recently posted a dream he had on his blog (http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/03/24/how-stonehenge-was-made/), tagged "ridiculous theories."

It came to me as if in a dream. They constructed Stonehenge by digging holes in the ground, ...

rebeccanyc in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 January 2008 (Jan 4, 2008, 6:45pm)

GreyHead, I wasn't terribly impressed with Everything is Miscellaneous either -- I thought it was basically a magazine article stretched out to book length. I am still reading The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano and am getting into it much more than I did originally. I took a break ...

GreyHead in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 January 2008 (Jan 4, 2008, 5:58pm)

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I finished David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous but wasn't terribly impressed (there's my life subscription cancelled). I also finished off Book Design br Andrew Haslam which was ...

grkmwk in Hogwarts Express : What did you read in 2007? (Dec 31, 2007, 11:23am)

... Hard Time by Timothy Egan Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling Plain Truth ...

GreyHead in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 29 December 2007 (Dec 29, 2007, 3:47am)

... Gaddis Carpenter's Gothic J.R.I've mostly been reading David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous this week around the holiday visitors but also found time to complete Steven Pinker's The Stuff of Thought which is somewhere between a ...

100experiments in 50 Book Challenge : 100experiments will read 50+ books in 2007 (Nov 30, 2007, 4:51pm)

... Jesella A trip down memory lane for the teen magazine, but this book sorely needs more visual candy. No photos. 46. Everything Is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger A thought-provoking look at how we organize and collect information has changed drastically with the rise of the digital ...

drholambda in Read YA Lit : November -- What are you reading? (Nov 2, 2007, 2:23pm)

CR: Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger JF: Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis -- I'd nominate it for a Newbery. LF2: Father Knows Less, or, Can I Cook My Sister? (nonfiction) by Wendell Jamieson

paghababian in 50 Book Challenge : paghababian's 75 books in 2007 (Oct 3, 2007, 12:35pm)

... no words, only pictures, and it packs a punch. Some of the panels would be beautiful as works of art on their own. 61. Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger - A very interesting and easy to follow look at how information is being described and used on the web. We've come a long ...

timspalding in Site talk : Interesting Social Software article (Sep 10, 2007, 8:08pm)

I'm a fan, particularly of his Ontology is Overrated talk, which is Everything is Miscellaneous lite, and his "love" talks (blogged about here).

CEP in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 25 Aug (Aug 29, 2007, 1:01pm)

>101 rebeccanyc Thanks for the tip on Everything is Miscellaneous. It's been pushed down the TBR pile a few times in favor of lighter fare, perhaps I'll zip through it next week. And I too, am a fan of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto. I have a memoir of hers Truth and Beauty which I must ...

rebeccanyc in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 25 Aug (Aug 29, 2007, 7:56am)

... (interesting, but I agree with whoever said it made you want to read Herodotus instead) and an LT recommendation, Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger, which I found interesting and breezily written, but which could have been (in my opinion) a long essay instead of a ...

grkmwk in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 4 August 2007 (Aug 6, 2007, 12:32pm)

Working on Identical Strangers for my Early Reviewers review, then I'll likely return to Everything is Miscellaneous, which I cast aside for Harry Potter a couple weeks ago. Also *slowly* working through Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators: Creative Strategies and Practical Solutions ...

jonathanweber in Site talk : Contest: What does tagging do to knowledge? (Jul 31, 2007, 8:12pm)

I so want a copy of Everything is Miscellaneous, but I'll also take this chance to plug a paper I wrote a while ago in library school entitled "Tags and Subject Headings in LibraryThing": http://dystmesis.net/2006/11/17/tags-and-subject-headings/

hexmap in Recommend Site Improvements : Replace tags (Jul 26, 2007, 3:35pm)

I'm curious, why does the order of tags matter? (If you've read Everything is Miscellaneous, it would seem to be a first order concept.)

ssd7 in Site talk : Contest: What does tagging do to knowledge? (Jul 26, 2007, 2:14pm)

I already have Everything is miscellaneous and do not need another. That being said, I felt like contributing anyway. I think the most interesting aspects of tagging, in a social networking context, are that (1) All tagging is personal and (2) All tagging is public I say that ...

marijane in Site talk : Contest: What does tagging do to knowledge? (Jul 25, 2007, 6:32pm)

... plays exactly into things I've been thinking about with respect to organizing knowledge. I've really been itching to read Everything is Miscellaneous because I have a feeling it will mesh well with my current thoughts. So, here are some of my thoughts about tagging. I think tagging lets ...

timspalding in Site talk : Contest: What does tagging do to knowledge? (Jul 25, 2007, 4:46pm)

... post. We're giving our ten free copies of Everything is Miscellaneous. The rules: *If you want the book, come there and say a word or two about tagging. *It doesn't need to be a big deal. A few sentences ...

fleela in Off-topic : Group image, anyone? (Jul 18, 2007, 11:51pm)

The cover of Everything is Miscellaneous?

ssd7 in 50 Book Challenge : ssd7's 50 Book Challenge (Jul 17, 2007, 10:44pm)

4) Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger This was an enjoyable and easily read book. While the explanation of contemporary technology and tagging seemed pedestrian to a child of the information age, the author presents enough history and philosophy to put these new innovations ...

honchica in Pima County : Nonfiction (Jul 16, 2007, 10:50pm)

Anyone read nonfiction? I just finished Everything is Miscellaneous and I wonder if anyone else read it. It chronicles how libraries have organized our books throughout history , which is of interest to librarians. Also talks about the history of alphabetization (which I thought was ...

grkmwk in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 7 July 2007 (Jul 9, 2007, 12:32pm)

... Strain by Michael Crichton and A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon over the weekend. I grabbed Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger as I dashed out the door this AM, but if it doesn't totally grab me, I might slip into a Harry Potter in anticipation of ...

timspalding in Recommend Site Improvements : Resolved: LibraryThing should have a "collections" feature. (Jul 4, 2007, 1:46pm)

... at the American Library Association. Just what a revolution this is is laid out in books like David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous. I've also got an LC talk coming on line soon. Down with collections: We must defend the revolution! I shall now yield the floor. I must ...

timspalding in Early Reviewers : Is it ALL going to be fiction? (May 23, 2007, 7:22pm)

... It may be that bookstores aren't the targets of advanced readers editions for non-fiction, however. I mean, I got ARCs of Everything is Miscellaneous (fantastic) and The Starfish and the Spider (meh) because they're right up my alley, but I can't imagine that spraying bookstores with that ...

rocketcitymel in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 May 2007 (May 13, 2007, 9:38am)

Double-header this week-I have been waiting for my copy of Everything is Miscellaneous and it does not disappoint. If certain library automation software companies read the thing they would be pounding their heads in despair for their profit margins. Filled with dry humor. And reading Hen Frigate ...

kathi in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 May 2007 (May 12, 2007, 5:03pm)

... nonfiction books going at the moment. The first is This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin. The second is Everything Is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger. Both excellent. Have also recently finished two good articles in Harper's Magazine for May 2007. They are "Maufacturi ...

charlenemartel in What did YOU buy today? : What did you buy today? May 2007 Edition (May 11, 2007, 1:16pm)

... Old Ch'eng translated by Mike Dickman Ibo Landing by Ihsan Bracy The Divine Duty of Servants by Rolando Perez Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger These are the books which arrived today.