Upon first reading the first two chapters of David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous, I was enthralled by his writing style and the information he was giving to his reader. After reading Chapter 5 and Chapter 6, I still admire his voice, however the information he is giving the reader seems to be awfully repetitive.
Once again in Chapter 5, Weinberger goes on to give an example to the reader of a type of system that needs organizing. In this case it’s a silverware drawer within a mutually rented college home. Then, as we read on Weinberger demonstrates to us new, fascinating ways that technology is replacing old ways of organizing.
In Chapter 3, Weinberger wrote about Amazon.com. He mentioned that Amazon’s system of giving every thing “more then one category” ends up being beneficial to the search process because you can find what you want to find by not having to narrow your search so precisely. In chapter 1 Weinberger also spoke about how a website like Flickr.com adds more information to certain pictures in order to be able to find those pictures in a multitude of places, similar to Amazon’s system. Here in chapter 5 Weinberger is once again writing about how tagging is making certain topics easier to find on the Internet, like with Delicious.com’s system – which happens to sound very similar to Amazon’s and Flickr’s. Is anyone else noticing a repetition here?
One example from the text that I use almost every day is Wikipedia’s method of tagging. Weinberger even explains how useful it is within chapter 5. I always find myself going in circles on Wikipedia, by looking up an athlete then somehow ending up reading about some guy that opened up a miniature-golf place that is named after that athlete. At least it keeps me entertained.
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