David Weinberger
David Weinberger
David Weinbergeris 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...
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CountryUnited States of America
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jobs learning knowledge
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.
accepted advance best closer happening hope humans knowledge scientific seems thus turn wrong
Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong - and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea of what knowledge is.
age becoming few hypothesis internet knowledge past waiting
Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.
books everybody knowledge seem social though understood written
Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.
knowledge lives medium properties takes
With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.
diversity knowledge known time work
We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.
organization marketing becoming
Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible.
data landscape next
The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.
who-we-are messages pieces
Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.
dust metadata collectors
To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.
thinking opposites voice
Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium...think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's talking in our own voices about things we want to hear about.
persistence elements world
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.
dream passion our-world
How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.
metadata
Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.