WebCT - Keynote: Dr. Weinberger
WebCT keynote on Wednesday: Re-thinking Knowledge: Everything is Miscellaneous – Dr. David Weinberger www.evident.com, email self@evident.com. I don’t know if the slides will be available through WebCT, Dr. W also spoke at the IA conference: http://www.iasummit.org/2006/conferencedescrip.htm#openplen and the slides are up there.
A fun presentation. Dr W was at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
If miscellaneous gets too big, something is wrong.
Assumptions –Properties of Knowledge
1. Knower/Knowledge/Known
2. One knowledge – the same for everyone
3. Knowledge is simple.
4. Knowledge is independent of knower – it doesn’t matter who said it.
5. It’s bigger than we are and it outlasts us (like a library).
6. Filtered –usually by white men.
7. Knowledge is orderly.
8. Has a knower.
Knowledge moves from simple to complex – through conversation, and weblogging now.
Filtering used to be done by white middle aged men, but now with the web, it’s more democratic. Front page news is through being in a box – see digger.com.
Atoms – lumping and splitting –organized like laundry. Used to be one item can only be in one pile, but with the internet you can have crossover. Digitized info does not follow these rules. The principles of organization are changing: messiness is successful, a camera at a store can only be in one place and a camera on line can be in many.
North Carolina library has faceted information – tree construction is happening dynamically.
Del.icio.us (owned by yahoo) is social – the world can do research for you tagging etc.
It costs more to exclude information than to include it. Sometime including it is postponing a sorting of the information. (weeding out). An authority can help you sort out, or wade through information.
Knowledge is social context rather than mental. They have knowledge as opposed to is now getting knowledge.
Neutrality is when you stop editing – well, when the piece is no longer edited.
Also new is sharing links – deferring or referring people to a higher authority. Links tell people to go somewhere else. There is something more interesting than my site.
Syllabus is a playlist. There knowledge is between us – we have to trust each other. Authorities are no longer and this is hard for some.
A fun presentation. Dr W was at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
If miscellaneous gets too big, something is wrong.
Assumptions –Properties of Knowledge
1. Knower/Knowledge/Known
2. One knowledge – the same for everyone
3. Knowledge is simple.
4. Knowledge is independent of knower – it doesn’t matter who said it.
5. It’s bigger than we are and it outlasts us (like a library).
6. Filtered –usually by white men.
7. Knowledge is orderly.
8. Has a knower.
Knowledge moves from simple to complex – through conversation, and weblogging now.
Filtering used to be done by white middle aged men, but now with the web, it’s more democratic. Front page news is through being in a box – see digger.com.
Atoms – lumping and splitting –organized like laundry. Used to be one item can only be in one pile, but with the internet you can have crossover. Digitized info does not follow these rules. The principles of organization are changing: messiness is successful, a camera at a store can only be in one place and a camera on line can be in many.
North Carolina library has faceted information – tree construction is happening dynamically.
Del.icio.us (owned by yahoo) is social – the world can do research for you tagging etc.
It costs more to exclude information than to include it. Sometime including it is postponing a sorting of the information. (weeding out). An authority can help you sort out, or wade through information.
Knowledge is social context rather than mental. They have knowledge as opposed to is now getting knowledge.
Neutrality is when you stop editing – well, when the piece is no longer edited.
Also new is sharing links – deferring or referring people to a higher authority. Links tell people to go somewhere else. There is something more interesting than my site.
Syllabus is a playlist. There knowledge is between us – we have to trust each other. Authorities are no longer and this is hard for some.
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