David Weinberger Quotes

David Weinberger is an American technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto . Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, knowledge and society.

A philosopher by training, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and taught college from 1980-1986. He was a gag writer for the comic strip "Inside Woody Allen" from 1976-1983.

He became a marketing consultant and executive at several high-tech companies, and currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, where he co-teaches a class on "The Web Difference" with John Palfrey. In addition, he is Co-Director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School. He had the title Senior Internet Advisor to Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and provided technology policy advice to John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign.He is the author of several books including The Cluetrain Manifesto, Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web, Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder and 2012 Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. Wikipedia

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Everything is Miscellaneous

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Everything is Miscellaneous

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Famous David Weinberger Quotes

“To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.”

David Weinberger book Everything is Miscellaneous

Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (2007), p. 233

“Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.”

David Weinberger

"Knowledge at the End of the Information Age," http://tvo.org/video/182213/david-weinbergerknowledge-end-information-age Bertha Bassam lecture, University of Toronto (2008-02-07)

“The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.”

David Weinberger

"The Internet is not a medium" http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002544.html, Hyperorg.com (2004-03-27)

“The cure to information overload is more information.”

David Weinberger

The cure to information overload is more information. http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004037.html, Hyperorg.com (2005-05-24)