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"Perfectly placed to tell us what's really new about [the] second-generation Web."―Los Angeles Times

Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world―in which everything has a place―are upended. In the digital world, everything has its places, with transformative effects:

• Information is now a social asset and should be made public, for anyone to link, organize, and make more valuable.

• There's no such thing as "too much" information. More information gives people the hooks to find what they need.

• Messiness is a digital virtue, leading to new ideas, efficiency, and social knowledge.

• Authorities are less important than buddies. Rather than relying on businesses or reviews for product information, customers trust people like themselves.

With the shift to digital music standing as the model for the future in virtually every industry, Everything Is Miscellaneous shows how anyone can reap rewards from the rise of digital knowledge.

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Customers find the book provides useful information and interesting explanations. They say it offers new possibilities for expanding thinking and organizing. The discussion of org charts is interesting, and the examples and case studies support the author's central thesis.

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Roger B. Wyatt
How Organization Works on the Net
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David Weinberger nails it. He makes clear how the organization of information is very different than how it’s done in the physical world. His examples are great and his analysis even better. If you are interested in the structure of information in a digital world. This is a key book for you.

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Miles Kehoe
The way of the (Virtual) World
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2007
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With a background in enterprise search, I'm inclined to think of David's book as required reading for those who doubt how vital meta-data and community tagging is to quality corporate search. In reality, it's about meta-data.

As other reviewers have mentioned, the book is about moving organization and retrieval of content - physical and virtual - from atoms to electrons. Office supply stores, libraries, and daily life are all limited by atoms: how much space there is in a store; what products should be displayed near other products; and what single specific shelf should a new book occupy given the Dewey Decimal system categorization.

In our increasingly virtual world, based on electrons, little of this matters - fax/copying/printer/scanners can be 'stored' under all of those categories, or a new book can be tagged with every possible related term, regardless of what category the librarian suggests. Web 2.0, Flickr, Wikipedia, Enterprise Search 2.0, all of our virtual worlds, will allow us to tag everything in any way that will help us find it again. And we can make it even better by opening the tagging up to a wider audience - friends, co-workers, even strangers - consider Amazon's suggestion system.

The book is a masterpiece and is a must-read for anyone involved in using - or designing - any part of our virtual and future world(s).

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Hope For People Caught In The Endless Quest For A Perfect Filing System
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2008
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This book speaks to the aching sense of futility experienced by all you organizational freaks. The reason your office or computer desktop folders are never perfect, and as a result you are not perfectly organized, is that you have not had perfect tools. Alas, the world does not fit into nested folders and file drawers ... no matter how clever you name them. We've always intuitively known this but David Wienberger gets specific about it. Along the way you'll learn that the folks managing the Dewey Decimal System have a more frustrating (hopeless?) organizational/taxonomical job than you do ... so you should feel better (or at least you should not feel alone).

David Wienberger goes deep on what software and more generally the internet has done to help us organize knowledge in the world. He illuminates our movement from first order organization (the library shelf), to second order (creating a library card catalogue to find that book), to third order (collective development and meta tagging of information as found in online tools like flikr, delicious, wikipedia, and others). The book begins to describe how mankind will keep intellectual order given the explosion of constantly changing information. The short answer to that "how" question is: we will no longer simply put information into discrete real or virtual folders. Instead we will actually begin to create broad information about each element of information (meta-data). More importantly we will do this collectively and share it widely.

Wienberger's sense is that we are organizing the worlds information steadily into structures that actually better mimic how the human mind works. We are bringing our information toolsets closer to us and as a result are making information and knowledge more accessible and useful. Wienberger's implication is that we will all spend less time organizing and more time making use of information. Great news unless you're a compulsive obsessive organizer. Read this book to find out what's driving many things you see on the internet including meta tagging, wikipedia, flickr, google, digg, and beyond.

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A rambling look at an important subject
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2007
The big contribution of "Everything is Miscellaneous", I think, is the concept of "orders". "First-order order" is structuring, like the placement of sentences in a text or products on a shelf. "Second-order order" is classification, putting information into categories and subcategories, maps,, etc. "Third-order order" is tagging and other meta-data, which allow us to make our own categorization on the fly ("give me a list of all books in this bookstore, divided by century published and subdivided by genre"). It's a neat set of phrasing, and if the book is not remembered for anything else, hopefully that taxonomy will remain.

Where the book falls short, though, is in its own "first-order order", its organization of ideas; which may be sadly appropriate for a book extolling "messiness". The book jumps from topic to topic, introducing ideas and people seemingly (to my mind) haphazardly, and in a way that makes it hard to keep track of all that has been covered. A better system of organization might have been chronological. After all, the full possibilities of tagging, or "third-order order", have only been enabled by computers and the Web. How much more interesting could it have been if we could see the progression of techniques for ordering and taxonomy through time, as a function of improving information technologies? Have there been pre-computer attempts at tagging? You can get a sense for some of these issues by piecing out the historical anecdotes Weinberger places, but it would have been easier to see them in a more natural order.

On that note, I also think Weinberger gives too little time to historical attempts at classification. The book does contain interesting examples of thoughts about categorization, from the ancient Greeks onward, but too often Weinberger stacks the deck against previous generations, by bringing in such loaded examples as apartheid South Africa's classification of races or psychiatrists' old definition of homosexuality as an illness. That unfairness extends even to book classification, where Weinberger talks at length about the badly-designed Dewey Decimal System, but ignores the Library of Congress system, which is nearly as old and much better-produced.

Blogs, on the other hand, get a lot more attention in the book than I think they should: they do not provide meta-data at all but rather commentary, and those two are not the same thing. Weinberger does not clarify that distinction, and in fact at one point asserts that "everything is metadata". That's not true in any rigorous sense, and I think just further confuses the issue.

On other current technologies I give "Everything is Miscellaneous" a mixed review. Wikipedia gets a prominent mention, as it should, but there's no discussion of categories within Wikipedia, which is the biggest effort at what could be called "collaborative tagging", as distinct from the standard web model of every user creating their own tags. And there's a nice discussion of the Semantic Web, but none of semantic wikis; Weinberger missed a chance to think a little ahead of 2007 (I'm speculating here a little bit).

For an information-science enthusiast like me, just about any discussion of classification is interesting; however, this book unfortunately does not provide a solid or clear overview of the theory of classification, instead getting caught up in what I see as Web boosterism. Yes, the Web has changed a lot about categorization, but not *everything* on the Web has done that.

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Michele Hille
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Lots of great observations. Very well written
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Phenomenal book. Lots of great observations. Very well written. Can thoroughly recommend.

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Colon classification are really useful..
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This book just pulls so many things upside down..which is actually true..organization, structure itself take new meanings..This book has inspired me to look at information around me and arrive at new never before looked at interpretations...the examples on Amazon, Colon classification are really useful..

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Die unbewussten aber gemachten Strukturen unserer Weltanschauung sichtbar machen
Reviewed in Germany on December 15, 2013
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Das Buch zeigt, wie die Strukturen der Ordnung und Organisation geschichtlich gewachsen und durch Konvention als einziger Weg gesetzt sind. Alternativen Bibliotheken zu Ordnen oder andere Items nach Systemen zu ordnen werden aussen vorgelassen. die eine Ordnung ist die wahre Ordnung. Im digitalen Zeitalter werden diese linearen, "wahren" Strukturen jedoch durch Tagging und Querverweise, durch die Vielfalt im Netz, in Frage gestellt. Was das für unser Denken, unser gemeinsames Handeln und für unser Wissen heisst, beleuchtet der Autor umfassend, einleuchtend und sehr spannend. Auf jeder Seite gibt es einen AHA-Effekt.
Viel Spaß bei der Lektüre....

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Weinberger says Amazon is a star!
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Reading a book on categorisation and classification? Don't tell you friends, if you have any, in my case I have now be labelled under Boring...

A very good book and quite readable given the subject matter. You will learn more about classifying and the shortcomings thereof than you will have learnt in your life (unless you are already an expert.) Excellent stuff and the only reason it doesn't have 5 stars is that Weinberger doesn't cover those items which are fixed within a particular organisation such as a 'sales order' or 'terms and conditions'. Sometimes things are simpler than he says!

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