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May 07, 2007

Shelley disagrees and also dislikes "Miscellaneous"

Shelley Burningbird Powers both disagrees with what I say and doesn't much care for how I say it in Everything Is Miscellaneous. I appreciate Shelley's care and thought. She does exactly what an author hopes reviewers will do — engage with the ideas — although of course I'd rather that she loved every comma and period in it. But, I didn't ask the publishers to send her a copy thinking that she was likely to agree with it... [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous shelley_powers burningbird]

Lots more at EverythingIsMiscellaneous...


Peter Merholz — the person who coined the term "blog," and director-at-large of the Information Architecture Institute — reviews Everything is Miscellaneous and says "it does not disappoint." "...David’s book isn’t about information, it’s about understanding, knowledge, and meaning — fundamentally, it’s a book on how the human condition is evolving."

Posted by D. Weinberger at May 7, 2007 11:31 AM


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