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June 27, 2007

Knowledge as a conversation

Tim Spalding of LibraryThing posts the intro to a talk he gave at the ALA in which he takes on Michael Gorman's trashing of Knowledge 2.0. Tim challenges Gorman's starting point. Herewith that starting point:

"Human beings learn, essentially, in only two ways. They learn from experience—the oldest and earliest type of learning—and they learn from people who know more than they do."

No, says Tim, we also learn by conversation...

Tim in a footnote takes me to task for not acknowledging in Everything Is Miscellaneous that, while digitization has "kicked things up a notch," the lessons are old ones. In general, I think that's right. I do tend to believe that the Web touches us so deeply because it more clearly expresses what we've known all along. That was the point of Small Pieces Loosely Joined . [Tags: librarything tim_spalding michael_gorman ala knowledge everything_is_miscellaneous ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at June 27, 2007 08:11 AM

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