Tag Archives: knowledge

David Weinberger’s Knowledge in the Age of Abundance

David Weinberger
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
& 4 ways the Internet isĀ  making us dumber (though overall it’s making us smarter)

Information abundant, but also abundance of crap.
Organizations premised on the good stuff having to redefine.
Age of information: finding out information, narrowing down to good stuff.
Today: abundant information (showed a profile page to demonstrate)
Exited [...]

things we wished we had learned in library school

A day after I sat on a panel on the issue at my alma mater, Stephen Abram posts a fantastic list!
I mostly spoke to the issues that resonated the most with my experience:

Experience matters.
Write papers in school that can be modified and published when you graduate.
You can participate, in all kinds of ways, in major [...]