David Weinberger



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

Quotes

 * 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)


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


 * To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.
 * Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (2007), p. 233


 * Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.
 * "Knowledge at the End of the Information Age," Bertha Bassam lecture, University of Toronto (2008-02-07)