Comments on: Weinberger’s third order of information http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/05/06/weinbergers-third-order-of-information/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Nav http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/05/06/weinbergers-third-order-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-255591 Nav Sun, 06 May 2007 20:17:07 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/05/06/weinbergers-third-order-of-information/#comment-255591 As a literary student, this resonates in so many ways. While we once limited ourselves to 'literature proper', that has now become impossible - one simply can't look at a piece of writing outside of the multiplicity of social, historical, cultural, political and economic contexts (to make no mention of others) it is created and read in. In much the same way, 'tagging' and Web 2.0 point to the networks of systems that can frame and shape units of information. What is fascinating about this is that while contemporary critical theory has been talking about the impossibly overlapped, multiple nature of knowledge for than fifty years, it's only now that we have the material and technological capacity to express the literally 'web-like' character of information and its contexts that we see an actual move toward a re-imagining of how we organise and conceive of 'data'. As a literary student, this resonates in so many ways. While we once limited ourselves to ‘literature proper’, that has now become impossible – one simply can’t look at a piece of writing outside of the multiplicity of social, historical, cultural, political and economic contexts (to make no mention of others) it is created and read in. In much the same way, ‘tagging’ and Web 2.0 point to the networks of systems that can frame and shape units of information.

What is fascinating about this is that while contemporary critical theory has been talking about the impossibly overlapped, multiple nature of knowledge for than fifty years, it’s only now that we have the material and technological capacity to express the literally ‘web-like’ character of information and its contexts that we see an actual move toward a re-imagining of how we organise and conceive of ‘data’.

]]> By: Mark Kuznicki http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/05/06/weinbergers-third-order-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-255536 Mark Kuznicki Sun, 06 May 2007 17:08:31 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/05/06/weinbergers-third-order-of-information/#comment-255536 Thanks for the post: yet another book added to my lengthening reading list. This seems like a good place to start for a Library 2.0 conversation. Some Barcampers have been talking about organizing a LibraryCamp to bring together the web 2.0 and Information Architecture crowd with the librarians. Thanks for the post: yet another book added to my lengthening reading list. This seems like a good place to start for a Library 2.0 conversation.

Some Barcampers have been talking about organizing a LibraryCamp to bring together the web 2.0 and Information Architecture crowd with the librarians.

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