David Weinberger: like the messy desk, messy information means something good is happening

Feb 20, 2008

David Weinberger: like the messy desk, messy information means something good is happening

David Weinberger’s keynote from the FastForward08 conference:

“…As information – and, importantly, metadata – get digitized, we have to unlearn millennia of lessons reality has taught us. The changes affect not only the basic principles of organization, but also who gets believed and why. In this session, David Weinberger explores what happens to experts, authorities, and the business and institutions that depend on them as we move to social knowledge, rich in connections but often uncontrolled and uncontrollable.”

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Stewart Mader presenting at Northern Voice 2008

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