Every hierarchy is under assault from the Internet. It reveals the biases underneath our systems. Weinberger makes a great case for a new kind of knowledge that better represents the messy but, glorious realityof the real world. Everything is Miscellaneous is what is important to our understanding of the Internet. All this knowledge, data, information and everything is out there and the web is filtering through this information; but only with our help.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
So what?
This book is the kind of book that connects all the miscellaneous things that are out there and makes something new, and understandable out of them. The world is divided into categories, topics, and subjects because physical objects need to be in one place or another, they can't be in all the places they might belong. But, computers and the Internet turn this all around because a computer can place these things in as many categories as they need to be in. It is done by individuals classifying this information. Technology is taking over but only with the help of us.
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Key point, "Technology is taking over but only with the help of us." The us here is crucial in understanding the powers and pitfalls of Web 2.0. Who helps, why, and to what ends? We'll see the consumer potentials and traps in the Jenkins text.
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