Class work: lecture notes on Social Knowing, etc.

Examining an academic database social knowing publish then filter lab exercise Books we think of being static, concrete tangible things we get answers.  But over time, books are a slower conversation or a forum on the topic, then today's blogs, and forums. Information cloud-editor-publisher-distribute-consumer. information cloud-users as editors - communities - users as users The …

Reading Response to: “The Geography of Knowledge”

Chapter 3 reflection: Leave it up to religion, specifically Christianity, to become a problem... aside my personal views, this chapter has broadened my understanding on the issue of categorizing and information sorting methods. For me the decimal system of Melvil Dewey mean absolutely nothing, I understand a number is assigned, but how does it get …

Reading Response to: “The New Order of Order” & “Alphabetization & Its Discontent”

Chapter 1 - "The New Order of Order" great first chapter! it talks about the three order of orders: Sorting, Cataloging and Digitizing. The bits define gravity, they are easier to search through and they are by far more sustainable then the first two ways of order. Everything has its place, every book, product, item, …