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Books : Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorderby: David Weinberger
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 Rating:  - A chatty introduction to the subjectI found this very disappointing. I guess it depends what your expectations are, and I didn't expect what this book delivered. It's chatty, anecdotal, long-winded and theoretical. It reads like the lecture notes for a basic class on information management for general students. I found it long on observation, short on analysis and entirely impractical. This may be what you want, in which case go for it. It's not a bad book, but it's definitely one for the generalist. If you already ... Read More Rating:  - Lumpers are from Mars and Splitters are from VenusIf you don't know what a lumper is, or what a splitter is, you should read this book. In fact, you should read this book anyway - especially if you work in a place with a network drive, do any kind of filing, work with anybody who does any kind of filing. I'm splitting too much. If you store information in any shape or form, then you should read this book. It's fairly obvious that the future will be full of information and data - this books about that and it's good. If you ... Read More Rating: - What a book - it manages to make librarianship interesting!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 ... Read More Rating: - Great small work on information organisationThis 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, ... Read More Rating: - Great book if you are interested in informationI 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 ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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