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Abstract

Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place--the physical world demanded it--but now everything has its places: multiple categories, multiple shelves. Simply put, everything is suddenly miscellaneous. In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines why the Dewey decimal system is stretched to the breaking point, how Rand McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map (and why Google Earth is winning that battle), how Staples stores emulate online shopping to increase sales, why your children's teachers will stop having them memorize facts, and how the shift to digital music stands as the model for the future in virtually every industry. Finally, he shows how by "going miscellaneous," anyone can reap rewards from the deluge of information in modern work and life. From A to Z, Everything Is Miscellaneous will completely reshape the way you think--and what you know--about the world.

Footnote

Rez. in: Publishers Weekly. May 2007: "In a high-minded twist on the Internet-has-changed-everything book, Weinberger (Small Pieces Loosely Joined) joins the ranks of social thinkers striving to construct new theories around the success of Google and Wikipedia. Organization or, rather, lack of it, is the key: the author insists that "we have to get rid of the idea that there's a best way of organizing the world." Building on his earlier works' discussions of the Internet-driven shift in power to users and consumers, Weinberger notes that "our homespun ways of maintaining order are going to break-they're already breaking-in the digital world." Today's avalanche of fresh information, Weinberger writes, requires relinquishing control of how we organize pretty much everything; he envisions an ever-changing array of "useful, powerful and beautiful ways to make sense of our world." Perhaps carried away by his thesis, the author gets into extended riffs on topics like the history of classification and the Dewey Decimal System. At the point where readers may want to turn his musings into strategies for living or doing business, he serves up intriguing but not exactly helpful epigrams about "the third order of order" and "useful miscellaneousness." But the book's call to embrace complexity will influence thinking about "the newly miscellanized world.""

LCSH

Knowledge management
Information technology / Management
Personal information management
Information resources management

Subject

Knowledge management
Information technology / Management
Personal information management
Information resources management

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Subject

Knowledge management
Information technology / Management
Personal information management
Information resources management

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Abstract

In an ideal world, everyone would always have the right information, in the right form, with the right context, right when they needed it. Unfortunately, we do not live in an ideal world. This book looks at how people in the real world currently manage to store and process the massive amounts of information that overload their senses and their systems, and discusses how tools can help bring these real information interactions closer to the ideal. Personal information management (PIM) is the practice and study of the activities people perform to acquire, organize, maintain, and retrieve information for everyday use. PIM is a growing area of interest as we all strive for better use of our limited personal resources of time, money, and energy, as well as greater workplace efficiency and productivity. Personal information is currently fragmented across electronic documents, email messages, paper documents, digital photographs, music, videos, instant messages, and so on. Each type of information is organized and used to complete different tasks and to fulfill disparate roles and responsibilities in an individual's life. Existing PIM tools are partly responsible for this fragmentation. They can also be part of the solution that brings information together again. A major contribution of this book is its integrative treatment of PIM-related research. The book grows out of a workshop on PIM sponsored by the National Science Foundation, held in Seattle, Washington, in 2006. Scholars from major universities and researchers from companies such as Microsoft Research, Google, and IBM offer approaches to conceptual problems of information management. In doing so, they provide a framework for thinking about PIM as an area for future research and innovation.

Content

Inhalt: How people find personal information / Jaime Teevan, Robert Capra, and Manuel Pe?rez-Quin?ones -- How people keep and organize personal information / William Jones -- How people manage information over a lifetime / Catherine C. Marshall -- Naturalistic approaches for understanding PIM / Charles M. Naumer and Karen E. Fisher -- Save everything : supporting human memory with a personal digital lifetime store / Desney Tan ... [et al.] -- Structure everything / Tiziana Catarci ... [et al.] -- Unify everything : it's all the same to me / David R. Karger -- Search everything / Daniel M. Russell and Steve Lawrence -- Everything through email / Steve Whittaker, Victoria Bellotti, and Jacek Gwizdka -- Understanding what works : evaluating PIM tools / Diane Kelly and Jaime Teevan -- Individual differences / Jacek Gwizdka and Mark Chignell -- Personal health information management / Anne Moen -- Group information management / Wayne G. Lutters, Mark S. Ackerman, and Xiaomu Zhou -- Management of personal information disclosure : the interdependence of privacy, security, and trust / Claire-Marie Karat, John Karat, and Carolyn Brodie -- Privacy and public records / Michael Shamos -- Conclusion / William Jones and Jaime Teevan.

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Personal information management

Subject

Personal information management