David Weinberger, Berkman Center:
Teaches "The Web Difference" course, co-wrote the "Cluetrain Manifesto", Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Everything is Miscellaneous.
Metaphors:
The Web is an ecosystem: It's too comfortable, "Everything works out."
The Web is pro-am: uses money as the distinguishing mark. It's really about quality, not money.
The Web/media is information flow: The fundamental role of news is not information.
The Web is abundant: Control doesn't scale.
In the age of abundance the struggle is over the metadata- what matters and how it matters.
I have to say I'm having a hard time following Weinberger's argument.
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Why do wars and revolutions happen? We do not know. We know only that to produce the one or the other men [sic] form themselves into a certain combination in which all take part; and we say that this is the nature of men [sic], that this is the law" -Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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- Nathaniel James
- Washington, DC, United States
- In my professional life, I'm the Campaign Coordinator at the Media and Democracy Coalition. Beyond my commitment to advancing the values of justice and democracy in the media sphere through policy change and advancing community media, I have an intense interest in the social structure and process of intra and inter-organizational collaboration; social networks and social network analysis; network theory; complex systems; and emergent phenomenon. The views expressed here are my own and don't reflect the positions of any organizational entity.