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Citation Weinberger, David. 2008. Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Holt. (Amazon) His Twitter account: twitter.com/dweinberger In the mess left by the department store sales (first order mess) and incompatibility of the patients records (second order mess) we "feel better" when they are fixed up to the original state …
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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 …
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To my understanding as we collect files on our computer, we are putting them in the folders, well, when we try to decide whether it is better to keep files miscellaneous and just search for the files, or of organize them into folders and sorting the files. Well, I think we could never have just …
This chapter begins from the history of the UPC. The need to organize the products under one system, one bar code shows how we as humans operate in this world. This chapter nicely touches up on the organization by comparing the two orders with one another, exposing the nature of the rigid vs. faceted structure. …
"Here Comes Everybody," Chapter 4 reflection: The chapter begins by saying that "media landscape is transofrmed, because personal communication and publishing, previously separate functions" are now merging together. The media landscape becomes more miscellaneous. The problem is that bad filtering is mixed with good. In other words, "bad" miscellany clogs up the internet. Peronal postings, …
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