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Transparency is the new objectivity.
David Weinberger
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The cure to information overload is more information.
David Weinberger
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Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.
David Weinberger
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Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.
David Weinberger
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It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.
David Weinberger
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To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.
David Weinberger
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The smartest person in the room, is the room.
David Weinberger
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Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.
David Weinberger
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The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.
David Weinberger
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This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.
David Weinberger
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How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.
David Weinberger
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Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium...think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's talking in our own voices about things we want to hear about.
David Weinberger
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Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.
David Weinberger
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The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.
David Weinberger
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Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible.
David Weinberger