The Berkman Center for Internet & Society hosted a celebration in congratulations of Berkman Fellow David Weinberger’s release of his book Everything is Miscellaneous through Times Books. David is a co-author of the national best-seller The Cluetrain Manifesto, has written for Wired, Salon, USA Today, and The Guardian, and in 2004, served as Senior Internet Advisor to the Howard Dean Campaign. David will give a talk on his book at 6pm at Harvard Law School in Pound Hall Room 335, which will be followed by a cocktail reception at 7pm at the Berkman Center, located at 23 Everett Street, also on the campus of the law school.
About Everything is Miscellaneous
For 2,500 years we’ve used the same principles for organizing information, ideas and knowledge that we use for putting Everything is Miscaway our laundry: Everything has its place, things are put with other things like it, it’s all neat and tidy. But as we move information on line, it no longer has to share the limits on the physical. We are rapidly inventing new principles of order, moving from newspapers to blogs, from encyclopedias to Wikipedia, from librarians to taggers. In fact, it turns out that the best way to manage digital information is *not* to have experts filter and sort it before hand, but to make a huge miscellaneous pile of it, include everything, and allow users to sort and organize it. This opens up new opportunities, but it fundamentally changes the nature of authority across all of our major institutions, including business, the media, science, education and government.