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
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.
information cures information-overload
The cure to information overload is more information.
giving hoarding who-you-know
It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.
idiot best-times seekers
This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.
dream passion our-world
How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.
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.
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.
across breaking campaigns degree dominated party spirit
The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.
indicator network people relevant social understand value work
How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.
age available bring filter filtering instead material others
In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.
history keeps recognize teaching trigger
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
dangerous inverse learned lesson normal
I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.
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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.
agree deepest large loses multiple organized ourselves society ways
We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.