Thursday, June 14, 2007

everything is miscellaneous

David Weinberger is just awesome.
Check out his Google TechTalk:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2159021324062223592
http://ghostfeet.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/everything-is-miscellaneous/

He starts sticking it to librarians at about 19:05, and he doesn't really let up -- he even tears into Gorman and Dewey. He obviously has affection for libraries and what we've done to organize information objects in the past... but today's a new day.

"Everything is metadata."
This is a Morville-level event.