Review of 'Everything Is Miscellaneous' on 'LibraryThing'
How the Web changes the ways we can organize things.
English language
Published April 29, 2008
Everything Is Miscellaneous
4 stars
(7 reviews)
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is a book by David Weinberger published in 2007 (ISBN 0805080430). The book's central premise is that there is no universally acceptable way of classifying information. Starting with the story of the Dewey Decimal Classification, Weinberger demonstrates that all attempts to classify inherently reflect the biases of the person defining the classification system.
Koven! reviewed Everything Is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger
Review of 'Everything Is Miscellaneous' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Meh. The topic is really interesting, and he has some great things to say, but the edge of his argument really gets blunted by spreading it out over several hundred pages. Probably would have read better as an article in Wired.
A. Rivera reviewed Everything Is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger
Review of 'Everything Is Miscellaneous' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
Though this book made the rounds of the librarian blogs, I was not particularly impressed. Basically, the author says "digital good, print bad. Organization bad; chaos good." A few rips on librarians for the work they do. While it had some interesting historical notes, I honestly did not see the big deal. So, the Internet is less organized, and people are setting up their own forms of organization to suit their needs. Ok, then what? Even though everything is miscellaneous, as the author claims, there is always a method somehow, no matter how much he protests. A lot of this I already knew, which is probably why I did not care much for the book.
