(came in half way through) Weinberger's web page
- talked about the fairly aribitrary way scientists decided Pluto wasn't a planet
- archaic Dewey decimal system to illustrate how even though it doesn't really function well in our global world, we're stuck with it and that's ok - we can think about knowledge despite it.
- defining and examining 'knowledge' / 7 properties of knowledge
- books are bad at linking information - footnotes are pretty ridiculous
- expensive to produce so the issue of authority comes into play
- with books - write in private then publish , can't update- model is being flipped on its head
- orders of organization - first order, actual stuff. second order, metadata (card catalog). third order, everything is digital - content and metadata
- 4 principles of organizing digital information
- leaf on many branches - put the book in lots of places
- messiness is a virtue
- no difference between data and metadata - search by about or a piece of the thing itself - only difference is data is the thing you are looking for and metadata is the thing you know - now any bit of information can be metadata
- unowned order - owners of the information no longer own the organization of the information - for the users - used NCSU catalog as example, then del.icio.us
- leaving the tree model (everything has 1 info place and only 1 place) and going to a 'pile' of info - new shape of knowledge - everything is connected
- it is more expensive to exclude stuff than include it - storage is so cheap - easier to keep everything than to make decisions about what to keep
- preserve everything because we do not know what matters
- filter on the way out, not on the way in - postpone building the taxonomy, let the user do it and give them the tools
- 7 properties: one and the same; simple; impersonal; bigger than we are; filtered; orderly; has a knower
- simple things become complex - simple george w speech, bloggers tease out the history, compexities, links
- no longer the broadcast era - no longer need to be so simple, blogs allow the conversation to be complex
- filtered - knowledge has been filtered by experts. there are other experts. used digg as the example
- authority - "when in doubt, look it up" (britannica)
- mere presence does not convey credibility.
- wikipedia - history and discussion pages incredible artifacts
- discussion pages increase the credibility of the articles
- increases credibility by letting you know right up front that there is debate about the article
- encourages authors/readers to increase the conversation
- beta is great
- showed a mocked up NYT front page with wikipedia warnings about neutrality, etc.
- publicly negotiated knowledge
- the world's greastest authority debates the common man
- world's greatest authority will leave if her stuff is changed too often
- the result is not what any individual would come up with, it has been negotiated
- knowledge is social
- kids do their homework socially w/ im
- kids learning social because knowledge is social (individual testing is ridiculous)
- (some german guy) in order to know what a hammer is, you have to know what nails are, what wood is, what trees are,
- context context context of info in order to create meaning
- externalization - books externalize knowledge, calculators externalize arithmatic
- now in the process of externalizing meaning -
- everytime you tag you make it possible for people to create meaning
- no links, no web!
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