Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations. David Weinberger More Quotes by David Weinberger More Quotes From David Weinberger The cure to information overload is more information. David Weinberger information-overload cures information The smartest person in the room, is the room. David Weinberger persons rooms Transparency is the new objectivity. David Weinberger transparency objectivity It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence. David Weinberger who-you-know hoarding giving This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot. David Weinberger best-times seekers idiot Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are. David Weinberger who-we-are pieces messages To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata. David Weinberger metadata collectors dust The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape. David Weinberger exotic landscape data Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge. David Weinberger metadata How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams. David Weinberger our-world passion dream Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation. David Weinberger defining conversation The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it. David Weinberger persistence elements world Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium...think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's talking in our own voices about things we want to hear about. David Weinberger opposites talking thinking Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible. David Weinberger becoming marketing organization The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent. David Weinberger chaotic world Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network. David Weinberger product like always knowledge With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network. David Weinberger only new internet knowledge In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts. David Weinberger result own digital age We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge. David Weinberger work time long knowledge If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize. David Weinberger deep problems good problem
