Information R/evolution
Mike Walsh, the Kansas State University professor who made "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" has a new video, "Information R/evolution", on YouTube.
Damn, we're divided. The new video is cool but it left our heads spinning and not necessarily in the best way. Despite (or because of) the flurry of statements and revisions and facts, we're trying to pin down what the point is.
At the end of the video he seems to say that information organization features like tagging and keywords and links "are not just cool tricks. They change the basic rules of order. We can make information find us."
Well that's not new. We could always call up the New York Times and have their information find us at our doorstep. Maybe we're missing something.
Check out the video below and tell us what you think.
Posted on October 23, 2007 by - Andrew Price
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My Brain Hurts
Every time I think of something along these lines, I immediately think about the "Matrix" and the machines taking us over.
I work in the web design/development industry and the video put web 2.0 into a nice bundled perspective for me. For others not so well versed or experienced with all the web site references, they would be completely lost. It will be very interesting how the www will have evolved 5-10 years from now.
Posted on October 23, 2007 — by phatso2e
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dont mean to sound like a geek here
the video is cool, but the domain of information organization, classification and categorization is a pretty broad one.
for those interested, there is a recent entry-level book on the topic by Weinberger:
Weinberger, David. 2007. Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. New York: Holt.
more in depth:
Bowker, G. and S. L. Star. 2000. Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Posted on October 24, 2007 — by albertopepe
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