David Weinberger Quotes

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David Weinberger (born 1950) is an American technologist, commentator, author and editor. He is perhaps best known as co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto.

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.

"The Internet is not a medium", Hyperorg.com (2004-03-27)

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The cure to information overload is more information.

David Weinberger
— The cure to information overload is more information., Hyperorg.com (2005-05-24)

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To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

David Weinberger
— Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (2007), p. 233

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Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

David Weinberger
— "Knowledge at the End of the Information Age," Bertha Bassam lecture, University of Toronto (2008-02-07)

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