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May 24, 2005
The power of tags shows that the way to manage information overload is more information. That's what the doomsayers of the 90's — Information Anxiety! Information Tidal Wave! — didn't foresee. [Technorati tags: EverythingIsMiscellaneous tags] Posted
by D. Weinberger at May 24, 2005 11:36 AM
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Comments
Wisdom from Weinberger .. and no, I'm not being sarcastic. I mean it .. we're all going to have to keep on learning more and more about *being effective in the flow*.
It's (the flow) not gonna stop, and the traditional ways information and knowledge have been classified, ordered, made accessible, distributed and stored have had major change visit, as you have pointed out many times. We now need to become, and feel, adept art skimming, dot-connecting, pattern recognition, and deciding well and wisely when to delve more deeply and in more concentrated ways into issue X or issue Y.
Actually, as I read the above phrase, I realized tagging addresses rather neatly large parts of these processes pre-hyperlinks and tagging ... "classified, ordered, made accessible and stored", doesn't it ...
Posted by: Jon Husband | May 25, 2005 08:55 AM
Omigod, you agree with something I wrote! I retract! I retract!
:)
Posted by: David Weinberger | May 25, 2005 09:59 AM
I love the title, true or not!
I hope someday to get a chance to read what you wrote re tags in Release 1.0 -- my days of being able to afford that in the original are long past.
Posted by: Tim | May 26, 2005 12:43 AM
I´d like to add "meta-" to your statement: "The power of tags shows that the way to manage information overload is more meta-information." since I think we do not need more information per se but we need more information about information, so that technical solutions may support us better.
Posted by: Andreas Weinberger | May 26, 2005 11:57 AM
Ms. Weinberger, I agree. I've just gotten skittish these days about the difference between info and metadata; that line has gotten fuzzier and fuzzier.
Posted by: David Weinberger | May 26, 2005 12:01 PM
Andreas Weinberger website suggest he is a he, not a she and there for should have the metadata of Mr. rather than Ms.
Posted by: Richard | May 27, 2005 09:42 AM