Comments on: From facts to data to commons

By: Harold Jarche » Managing the unmentionable

Harold Jarche » Managing the unmentionable — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:01:18 +0000

[...] From facts to data to commons; by @dweinberger In a world too big to knowâ„¢, our basic strategy has been to filter, reduce, and fragment knowledge. This was true all the way through the Information Age. Our fear of information overload now seems antiquated. Not only is there â€œno such thing as information overload, only filter failureâ€Â Clay Shirky, natch, in the digital age, the nature of filters change. On the Net, we do not filter out. We filter forward. That is, on the Net, a filter merely shortens the number of clicks it takes to get to an object; all the other objects remain accessible. [...]

By: Mirek Sopek

Mirek Sopek — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:36:27 +0000

When speaking about facts and our strive for knowing the world, it is hard tonight not think about Wikileaks and the “facts” it is going to disclose. Are they indeed facts? Will their disclosure lead not to chaos??

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By: david Weinberger

david Weinberger — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:58:58 +0000

Nice! Thanks, Wray.

By: Wray Cummings

Wray Cummings — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:19:50 +0000

"The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows." R Frost, Mowing, 1915 (public domain)