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Sent: 23 November 2005 13:12
To: OII-contacts
Subject: OII News [2005.11.23]: The New Shape of Knowledge: From Trees to
Piles of Leaves


Dear All,
 
Please may we bring your attention to the following forthcoming event:
 
'The New Shape of Knowledge: From Trees to Piles of Leaves'

Date: 30 November 2005, 10:00 - 11:30
Location: Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS 

Attendance: This event is open to the public, if you would like to attend
please email your name and affiliation to [log in to unmask]

Speakers: David Weinberger, Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center

Abstract
The digital revolution is enabling knowledge to slip the bonds of the
physical which had, silently, shaped it. Now we get to see its "natural"
shape. What does it look like? How big are topics when they aren't
determined by the economics of paper? Who gets to organize it? What are the
new principles we're using to organize it? David Weinberger proposes that in
the digital world, the most "natural," efficient and responsive way to
manage knowledge is to create huge, distributed piles of leaves, each tagged
with as much metadata as possible - including treating the content as
metadata - and postponing until the last minute the taxonomizing of the
information. What will be the social effects as we move from trees to piles
of leaves?

Biography
David Weinberger, Ph.D. (www.evident.com) is co-author of the bestseller,
The Cluetrain Manifesto and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined; he
writes the well-known blog "Joho." He is a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman
Center for Internet & Society. His work has appeared in Harvard Business
Review, USA Today, Wired, Salon, The Guardian, Esther Dyson's Release 1.0
and many others. He is a commentator on National Public Radio and is a
columnist for Worthwhile, KMWorld and Il Sole 24 ore (the leading financial
daily newspaper in Italy). He is on the advisory boards of Technorati,
ITConversations, SocialText, BlogBridge, the Information Architecture
association and the Christopher Reeve Foundation. As a marketing consultant
he has has worked with many companies, from startups to Fortune 500. He has
a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto. His book "Everything
Is Miscellaneous" about the social effect of the new digital ways of
organizing knowledge will be published by Times Books in winter, 2007.

This event will be webcast and can be viewed at
http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20051130_109.

For further information on all OII events, please refer to our website at:
www.oii.ox.ac.uk and for further OII webcasts please visit
http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/.

We hope to see you there.
 
Kind Regards
The Events Team

Oxford Internet Institute
1 St Giles
University of Oxford
Oxford
OX1 3JS

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287209
Fax: +44 (0)1865 287211

www.oii.ox.ac.uk







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