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d david weinberger co author of the cluetrain manifesto perseus books april 2002 kids version in french in norwegian in italian in portuguese in dutch odd but true and free in the tradition of marshall mcluhan a startlingly fresh look at a new medium daniel pink free agent nation a rich and beautiful text lawrence lessig the future of ideas the reviews are in this page in latvian what is the web for and why do we care so much why has this simple technology sent a lightning bolt through our culture it goes far beyond the web s over hyped economic impact 500 million of us aren t there because we want a better shopping experience the web a world of pure connection free of the arbitrary constraints of matter distance and time is showing us who we are and is undoing some of our deepest misunderstandings about what it means to be human in the real world buy small pieces first reactions this is a book to savor not to speed read i am not a techie but i ardently believe the web will change everything david has made me laugh and frown and pause and think and scribble furiously in the margins and call friends a continent away for long conversations that s exactly the right mood for exploring the consequences of the most profound medium of social and political and economic change in hundreds of years tom peters someday someone was going to notice that the internet is not just virtual but instead connects to and fundamentally affects society in this rich and beautiful text weinberger weaves an account of the places in our social and conceptual fabric where the internet will pull and possibly tear this is not a book about the internet and society it is about society marked with the net lawrence lessig the future of ideas stanford law school in the tradition of marshall mcluhan david weinberger has offered a startlingly fresh look at a new medium at its heart small pieces is an elegant and ultimately hopeful inquiry into the human condition itself once you read this book you ll see the web and yourself in a whole new light daniel h pink author of free agent nation david weinberger is a rare discovery an information guru who makes his complex message clear allowing the access and understanding that are enhanced by storytelling and humor small pieces is a big book even better than his wonderful cluetrain manifesto richard saul wurman information anxiety access guides ted conference small pieces provides the best of all combinations deep thoughtful commentary written as light easy reading professor don norman northwestern university author of the invisible computer we haven t begun to understand how the connected world will shape our lives at a level deeper than commerce and conversation weinberger takes on the harder deeper questions of values social norms and individual behavior that will be the internet s real legacy chris meyer cap gemini ernst young center for business innovation co author of blur links flap copy email david w my home page my newsletter my weblog my bio npr commentaries list of current publications the cluetrain manifesto have me speak at an event this book was written online here s the story contact info david weinberger email protected www weinberger org perseus books 617 252 5212 11 cambridge center cambridge ma 02142 flap copy the web doesn t exist in space yet we talk about going to sites entering them and leaving diaries move on line and suddenly they re more about creating selves than writing about them web sites don t have fences yet a site for auction hunters was found to have trespassed on ebay a metaphorical offense for which it paid a very real price companies invest heavily in professional polished web sites but the web rewards sites that revel in imperfection bits are the atoms of the web but they have no weight no size and no real existence these anomalies are just a few that show how uncomfortable the fit between the web and the real world is and how deeply weird the ordinary life of the web is in this one of a kind book of social commentary david weinberger takes us beyond the hype revealing what is truly revolutionary about this new medium just as marshall mcluhan forever altered our view of broadcast media weinberger shows that the web is transforming not only transforming social institutions but also bedrock concepts of our world such as space time self knowledge even reality itself the web would be important enough if it hooked up our species on a global scale but weinberger argues it is doing much more than that unlike previous technologies such as the phone or fax the web is a permanent public space that gathers value every time someone posts a web page or responds on a discussion board or replies to a mail list the result is that the web is a second world layered on top of the real world that s drawing into it more and more of our social life lives together weinberger introduces us to the denizens of this second world people like zannah whose online diary turns self revelation into play tim bray whose map of the web reveals what s at the heart of the new web space and danny yee and claudiu popa part of the new breed of web experts we trust despite their lack of obvious qualifications through these stories of life on the web an insightful take on some familiar and some unfamiliar web sites and a pervasive sense of humor weinberger is the first to put the web into the social and intellectual context we need to begin assessing its true impact on our lives the irony according to weinberger is that this seemingly weird new technology is more in tune with our authentic selves than is the modern world because the web foils our conventional assumptions about concepts like space and time and self we are led back to a more authentic view of what it means to be a person sharing a world with others whether it s the world of the web or the real world of atoms our experience on the web enables us to recapture the truth of our experience of the real world funny provocative and ultimately hopeful small pieces loosely joined makes us look at the web and at life in an all new light david weinberger is the publisher of joho journal of the hyperlinked organization he is a commentator on national public radio s all things considered and a columnist for darwin magazine kmworld and intranet design magazine co author of the bestselling the cluetrain manifesto he has written for a wide variety of publications including wired the new york times and smithsonian and gives talks around the world on what the web is doing to business table of contents 0 preface the title and subtitle explained read the entire chapter online 1 a new world the web more an idea than a technology is challenging the bedrock concepts of our culture space time matter knowledge morality etc read the entire chapter online 2 space why do we perceive the web as a space when in fact it isn t read the entire chapter online 3 time the web is doing more than just speeding up our interactions and communications it s threading and weaving our time and giving us more control over it plus a really juvenile way to annoy your spouse 4 perfection the web will always be a little broken says its creator tim berners lee just like us mortals 5 togetherness the web is a new public space solving the old contradiction between viewing ourselves as faceless members of a mass and as face ful unique individuals 6 knowledge we ve thinned knowledge so far that we actually think we work like computers the web oddly retrieves a more bodily less anorexic sense of knowledge 7 matter the very stuff of the web is profoundly social and meaningful it thus lets us see that our traditional realism is not only wrong but dreadfully alienating 8 hope the web s hyperlinked architecture is connective and based on shared caring it thus reflects the basic structure of morality hope is in order the reviews booklist 5 1 02 keir graff finally as the dust of toppling dot coms settles we are given a levelheaded look at what our headlong embrace of the web means to us as human beings this exceptionally readable and often funny treatise makes strong arguments and ends with a convincing forecast for positive changes in the way we live weblog discussions small pieces has been the most discussed most linked to book in the weblogging community here are some of those discusssions akma daniela bouneva elza alex golub andrew hinton denise howell tom matrullo steve mclaughlin eric norlin chris pirillo martin roell jacob shwirtz halley suitt marek interview ed yourdon frontwheel drive salon 8 13 02 scott rosenberg at its heart is a simple insight that most of what s on the web is there because someone is interested in it cares about it passionately enough to put it in front of the rest of the world it s a social commons on which the interests of a mass of individuals are splayed in universally accessible detail and trumpeted in an effectively infinite array of personal voices that concept is almost unfathomable to media pros whose business is aggregating eyeballs to sell to advertisers if media companies are going to continue to participate in the web world and they are then they could learn a lot from weinberger s analysis link los angeles times 5 12 02 susan salter reynolds david weinberger guides us gracefully through the effects and history of that revolution just in time to ready us for the next one the web will have its deepest effect as an idea not as the tool it has become for most of us weinberger concludes he begins gently with suppositions raising issues one by one picking up speed drawing us further and further from concepts we are comfortable with until midway through small pieces we look down to find our understanding of the internet as a tool far beneath our feet it can actually make you dizzy for the brief and shining hours that i held this book in my hands i believed that all this was possible i saw the emerald city shimmering in the distance link newsweek 2 1 03 michael rogers an enjoyable read weinberger isn t quite serious about his subtitle a unified theory of the web rather he provides a thoughtful explication of the phenomena that any such theory should unify from the design of e commerce sites to why the phrase all your base are belong to us swept the web of the three authors reviewed here he s the most overtly philosophical with chapter titles like space and time and he makes an interesting point the idea of the web is in some ways more important than the mechanism of the web the truly transforming impact of the internet will occur when the linking and virtual existence that we experience on the web starts to alter how we understand and manage society itself i suppose that s what my audiences really want when they ask for that single book to read direction on how to manage and behave in this new environment link phi beta kappa key reporter winter 03 larry j zimmerman a challenging and upbeat book that asks fundamentally why the web excites us so he contends that the web provides an opportunity to rethink our presuppositions about our own and the world s nature and that the hype has not been unwarranted only misdirected link miami herald 5 13 02 richard pachter weinberger explores the subtle ways that this new connectedness affects all aspects of business and life the discussion is calm even rational but his excitement is palpable without being hyperbolic it s a freewheeling sort of meditation on the reinvention of communication and transaction that the web has enabled given the hype surrounding the internet over the past decade weinberger s thoughtful analysis presents an interesting contrast it s a bracing and surprisingly comforting view his quiet passion thoughtfulness and intellectual curiosity makes small pieces a worthwhile meditation hartford courant 4 7 02 john m moran you ve surfed the web you ve shopped the web you may even have traded messages over the web or created your own web pages but have you stopped to think about the web i mean really think about the how and the what and the why of it david weinberger has and he presents a raft of thought provoking conclusions in 200 readable pages titled small pieces loosely joined he draws not just on a technical understanding of the web but on a broad familiarity with western thought t he book achieves its goal of providing a thoughtful new perspective on the web and its impact cio 6 15 02 amanda s fox socrates suggested the unexamined life is not worth living small pieces loosely joined extends that maxim to include virtual life as well thought provoking stimulating link public news service 4 15 02 must read kmworld 5 02 hugh mckellar it s the best thing ever written about the web provocative keenly insightful funny sometimes side splittingly so well crafted and convincing financial times of london john gapper weinberger beleives the web has if anything been under hyped so great is its potential to overturn our notions of time space and even community a charming vision of an electronic utopia it reminds us that despite all the wasted money and failed ventures the web was a wonderful invention if only we had more time to explore the new world ny times bookreview backpage essay judith shulevitz david weinberger s smart new book publishers weekly 4 22 02 a philosophy professor turned marketing guy turned writer weinberger boasts an extremely likeable mainstream intellectual persona flashes of insight and genuine literary talent but the aspect of his personality that drives this book is his tendency to question weinberger leads readers through an exploration of the web s implications beyond amazon com his concepts are in a way accurate weinberger celebrates the internet s gift to its users permission to be an individual in a virtual world we can tailor to our passionate idea driven taste bucknell world 1 03 kirk mcelhearn weinberger is being compared to marshall mcluhan for his lucid groundbreaking analysis of the new medium a witty intelligent guide technology and society 11 02 kirk mcelhearn the web has changed the way we think about space and time it has created new approaches to human interaction and business it has decentralized and delocalized some of the institutions that are at the very heart of our existence the web is just another set of string and tin cans says the author but the web is ours link wired 5 02 simson garfinkel the next time someone tells you that the internet revolution failed as evidenced by all those dotcom busts hand them a copy of small pieces loosely joined sure to be entertained by weinberger s well written observations about the curiosities of our age link 800ceoread 5 02 i ve got to tell you that this guy can write very well and very convincingly the author has a great sense of humor this book gave me constant insights into the phenomenon that the web has become link and then there s this guy washington post 7 04 david futrelle if you put a million monkeys without 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