Session Title: "Everything is Miscellaneous" by David Weinberger

 

Session Number: 250

 

Room: Sierra

 

Day and Timeslot: Monday - 11:15am to 12:15pm

 

Formats: Book Club

 

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Session Description: The digital world is forcing us to rethink how things are organized, allowing things to be in more than one category and place at a time. How is this affecting your work and your world? If you have read this book or are intrigued, please join us for an informal one hour chat.

 

Led by: Michelle Lentz - Write Technology (Cincinnati, OH)

 

 

Michelle is an independent consultant specializing in technical writing, instructional design, and collaborative learning. Michelle is also an award-winning blogger, with 2 successful industry blogs and 2 personal weblogs. She advocates Web 2.0 technology and, in spite of herself, is really quite a geek. She is also presenting session 836 at this conference (on blogs of course) and is presenting on wikis and open-source at TechKnowledge 2008. This has all come as rather a surprise to her.

 

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Hello! Welcome to the book club page for Everything is Miscellaneous. When I first got this book, I tore through it. I'm now re-reading it at a much slower pace so that I can discuss it with all of you.

 

At first glance, you might thing the book covers Web 2.0-like things, such as tagging. And it does. But it also covers everything in our everyday lives - from how a Staples store is organized to how you're organizing your recipes. The digital world has brought on the ability to organize things at a very small, miscellaneous level. Things can be in more than one category or digital place. We're no longer limited to the Dewey Decimal System in our libraries. How has this affected your life?

 

So pick up the book and join in on the discussion - both here on the wiki and in the session Monday morning in Orlando!

 

 - Michelle

 

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Got an hour to kill? Sit in on a session at Google - a Google TechTalk - where David Weinberger presented on his book. It's a great session and you can watch and listen via Google Video. I'll embed it here, or you can go to the link for a full screen version.

 

 

 - Michelle

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Buy the book!

 

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LINKS

 

I'll post a complete write-up later, but I wanted to immediately list some of the links we talked about in the session.

 

Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org

 

Open Source Software (explanation): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Software

 

Squeezebox (please correct if this is the wrong software): http://www.slimdevices.com/

Last.fm: http://www.last.fm

Pandora Internet Radio: http://www.pandora.com/

Music Genome Project - explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project

 

AquaBrowser: http://www.medialab.nl/

AquaBrowser in Use, Howard County Library: http://aquabrowser.hclibrary.org/

 

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