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.
metadata
Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.
dream passion our-world
How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.
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.
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.
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.
organization marketing becoming
Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible.
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.