David Weinberger

It's a powerful idea: from org charts to science, from music to retail theory, from government to education, every field of human endeavor is tinged with hierarchy, and every hierarchy is under assault from the Internet. One impact of this change is that it reveals the biases lurking underneath the editorial carvery of our systems.

Everything is Miscellaneous - A Great Book by David Weinberger: This creates a conundrum for businesses as they enter the digital age. If they don't allow their users to structure information for themselves, they will lose their patrons. If they do allow patrons to structure information for themselves, the organization will lose much of their power and control.

The prologue and first chapter of Everything Is Miscellaneous are available in their entirety:

Prologue: Information in Space

Chapter 1: The New Order of Order

Everything Is Miscellaneous, livro novo do David Weinberger

“The world is messy, like it or not, and it’s only going to get messier as the Web destroys rules and rule-makers. You can either complain about the chaos and wish for the good old days of order, or you can buy this book and understand why delirious disorder will soon make us all smarter.” — Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail”

David Weinberger attacks the complexity of the real world, not by making it simple, but by making it clear. Once he explains how thingscan be in more than one place at a time-and make sense-you’ll never lookat a humble bookshelf or store shelf the same way again.”
— Esther Dyson, author of Release 2.0