Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web Export

@book{Weinberger:2002, abstract = {{David Weinberger's <I>Small Pieces Loosely Joined</I> does not merely celebrate the World Wide Web; it attempts to make a case that the institution has completely remodeled many of the world's self-perceptions. The book does so entertainingly, if not convincingly, and is a lively collection of epigrammatic phrases (the Web is "'place-ial' but not spatial"; "on the Web everyone will be famous to 15 people"), as well as illustrations of these changes. There are intriguing assertions: that the Web is "broken on purpose" and that its many pockets of erroneous information and its available forums for disputing, say, manufacturers' hyperbole, let people feel more comfortable with their own inherent imperfections. At other times the book seems stale: it declares that the Web has disrupted long-held axioms about time, space, and knowledge retrieval and that it has dramatically rearranged notions of community and individuality. Weinberger's analysis, though occasionally facile and too relentlessly optimistic and overstated, is surely destined to be the subject of furious debate in chat rooms the cyber-world over. <I>--H. O'Billovich</I> } {...an ambitious look at how the web is transforming the concepts on which our society is built...Weinberger shows that the new medium of the web is not only altering social institutions such as business and govn't but reality itself }}, author = {Weinberger, David}, citeulike-article-id = {4937422}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike04-20&#38;path=ASIN/0738205435}, howpublished = {Hardcover}, keywords = {collective\_intelligence, conversation, cybersociology, digital, file-import-09-06-23, internet, media, networks, new\_economy, new\_media, online, online\_behavior, social\_interaction, social\_networks, social\_software, socialsoftware, tagging, web\_20}, month = {March}, posted-at = {2009-06-23 22:36:52}, priority = {2}, publisher = {{Perseus Books Group}}, title = {Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web}, url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike04-20{&}path=ASIN/0738205435}, year = {2002} }

TY - BOOK ID - Weinberger:2002 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4937422 N2 - {David Weinberger's <I>Small Pieces Loosely Joined</I> does not merely celebrate the World Wide Web; it attempts to make a case that the institution has completely remodeled many of the world's self-perceptions. The book does so entertainingly, if not convincingly, and is a lively collection of epigrammatic phrases (the Web is "'place-ial' but not spatial"; "on the Web everyone will be famous to 15 people"), as well as illustrations of these changes. There are intriguing assertions: that the Web is "broken on purpose" and that its many pockets of erroneous information and its available forums for disputing, say, manufacturers' hyperbole, let people feel more comfortable with their own inherent imperfections. At other times the book seems stale: it declares that the Web has disrupted long-held axioms about time, space, and knowledge retrieval and that it has dramatically rearranged notions of community and individuality. Weinberger's analysis, though occasionally facile and too relentlessly optimistic and overstated, is surely destined to be the subject of furious debate in chat rooms the cyber-world over. <I>--H. O'Billovich</I> } {...an ambitious look at how the web is transforming the concepts on which our society is built...Weinberger shows that the new medium of the web is not only altering social institutions such as business and govn't but reality itself } TI - Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web PB - {Perseus Books Group} KW - collective_intelligence KW - conversation KW - cybersociology KW - digital KW - file-import-09-06-23 KW - internet KW - media KW - networks KW - new_economy KW - new_media KW - online KW - online_behavior KW - social_interaction KW - social_networks KW - social_software KW - socialsoftware KW - tagging KW - web_20 AU - Weinberger, David PY - 2002/March// UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike04-20&#38;path=ASIN/0738205435 ER -