David Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, is simply going take a long time to digest before I can understand its ramifications for the question that I always ask of those on the leading edge of new media, namely, how can we use it to help those in need of health care? Weinberger’s fascinating and insightful work describes to us the changes in how new media/internet organizes knowledge. New media is creating a miscellaneous world in which information is ‘disordered’. This messiness is in contrast to the standardized, ordered, covertly political, and authority-driven construction of knowledge all around us. The virtue of this miscellany is that it bypasses these inherent limitations by creating information ‘without borders.’
See my entire post over at the World Health Care Blog.
