Citation Weinberger, David. 2008. Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Holt. (Amazon) His Twitter account: twitter.com/dweinberger A very easy to read chapter, unlike the previous, perhaps because it talks about the ones and zeros of our basic mentality. We read signs and if they are not simple enough we …
Class work: SEARCH for “INTERNET OF THINGS”
1. What am I looking for? 2. What tools are available? 3. How can I search this tool like an expert? internet of things. what is it? I typed in a Google search "Internet of Things" to look what returns to the query: Wiki was at the top of the list defining the phrase "Internet …
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Reading Response to: “Search is too important to leave to one company – even Google”
Search engines becoming very important in our lives, our news, our education, and even politics are dependent upon the searchability of the subject we search for. As Dewey's, rigid structure of categories has its flaws because once the ingredients are mixed, you can't go back and undo what you already mixed in to the bowl. …
Class work: Search vs. Sort
To my understanding as we collect files on our computer, we are putting them in the folders, well, when we try to decide whether it is better to keep files miscellaneous and just search for the files, or of organize them into folders and sorting the files. Well, I think we could never have just …
The Shift from Editor to Community: Reflections on Weinberger’s ‘Everything is Miscellaneous’
David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (2008) explores how the digital age transforms the way we organize, share, and consume knowledge. Early in the book, Weinberger highlights the role of editors, the "social royalty" of a highly hierarchical knowledge system. Editors decide what to include and how to structure …
Reading Response to: “Smart Leaves”
This chapter begins from the history of the UPC. The need to organize the products under one system, one bar code shows how we as humans operate in this world. This chapter nicely touches up on the organization by comparing the two orders with one another, exposing the nature of the rigid vs. faceted structure. …
Class work: Google tips on web search
It really helps to read the help files... in class we were asked by a professor to read on the Google.com search basics and practice on applying those searching techniques in practice. I decided to use my own website: http://www.mikhailoparin.com. This tremendous improvement on understanding of the phrase: "KNOWING how to search and KNOWING what …
Reading Response to: “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”
creating a web search engine is not an easy task for an ever increasing growth of the web, however, with today's technologies, the technical part of improving its infrastructures is getting easier and cheaper. The improvement of the search quality is the main goal here. If I understand it correctly, the problem here is the …
Class work: Comparing PsycINFO and Google search engines
searching for "educational system in America" Google scholar: came back with the result of 3.2 mil. hits. CSA web: came up with 249 publications ---------------------------- Google: searched instead of "Find articles with all of the words" i used a different field to "Find articles with all of the words with the exact phrase" which narrowed …
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Reading Response to: “Publish, Then Filter”
"Here Comes Everybody," Chapter 4 reflection: The chapter begins by saying that "media landscape is transofrmed, because personal communication and publishing, previously separate functions" are now merging together. The media landscape becomes more miscellaneous. The problem is that bad filtering is mixed with good. In other words, "bad" miscellany clogs up the internet. Peronal postings, …
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