[bksvol-discuss] Submitted: Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
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- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:19:50 -0700 (PDT)
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Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
2007
Book of interest to those who like computers, information processing, and
library science.
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In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of
digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and
culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines
why the Dewey decimal system is stretched to the breaking point, how Rand
McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map (and why
Google Earth is winning that battle), how Staples stores emulate online
shopping to increase sales, why your childrenʼs teachers will stop having them
memorize facts, and how the shift to digital music stands as the model for the
future in virtually every industry. Finally, he shows how by "going
miscellaneous," anyone can reap rewards from the deluge of information in
modern work and life.
Jim Nuttall--Michigan
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