Everything is Miscellaneous

Google Tech Talks
May 10, 2007

ABSTRACT

David Weinberger's new book covers the breakdown of the established order of ordering. He explains how methods of categorization designed for physical objects fail when we can instead put things in multiple categoreis at once, and search them in many ways. This is no dry book on taxonomy, but has the insight and wit you'd expect from the author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and a former writer for Woody Allen. Credits: Speaker:David Weinberger

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[controltheweb]

20:00 - 26:00 Dewey Decimal system Other places to start: 27:44 Digital Data organization 29:55 "Everything is metadata" 33:35 Tagging 35:22 Summing up 36:00 "Include everything" 38:36 Why this matters 40:56 Prototype theory 43:00 Publicly negotiated knowledge (Wikipedia) 45:00 Allow infallibility into definition of knowledge (Wikipedia vs. NY Times) 46:06 Understanding (Heidegger) a thing's place in referential context of meaning 47:55 Making connections of meaning between pieces 49:50 Q & A

[gayforlife2020]

Are we smart enough to know how to access/tag the most profound data, in this still-early digital age? Do we trust "taggers?" The static/noise that I find in a typical search for meaningful data still leaves me irritated, and happy to visit the NYPL - where opinions are often informed and not as subject to daily whim. And more, advertisements are not vying for my attention.

[CaptTravers]

Spinoza: The racehorse, the cart horse, and the ox.

[heethen1]

3:24 - Czech Military Sambas?! :-D

[thelasthominin]

Great lecture.

A minor quibble with the abstract: "categoreis" should be "categories".

[laura122007]

just make mindmaps

[mahalie23]

Slow start, but interesting talk. It would be nice if there was an introtrim() function we could apply to talks in general.