Exclamation Interview: Everything Is Miscellaneous Author David Weinberger
If you ever find yourself singing, “Don’t know much about ontology…,” then maybe it’s time you picked up David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous. In a year when Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail sit comfortably in the Amazon Top 40 and Top 400, respectively, it’s no surprise that Weinberger’s book isn’t far behind. (Top 650, anyone?)
Never before have I been so enthralled by a book about order. Yeah, that’s right - how stuff gets sorted into clumps and piles - from 18th Century Botany to reddit. Everything has already made some enemies; Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is killing our culture violently disagrees with Weinberger on many points, but no matter which side you’re on, Weinberger really explains the why of the miscellaneous.
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