Comments on: Bloggy party

By: David Weinberger

David Weinberger — Sat, 12 May 2007 20:16:39 +0000

It was a highlight of the book tour for me. Thank you all.

By: More Everything is Miscellaneous « When Cars Run on Information

More Everything is Miscellaneous « When Cars Run on Information — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:04:34 +0000

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By: Tom Shugart

Tom Shugart — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:31:30 +0000

David: It was so great to meet you at last–after five years of having your name up at the top of my blog. I really appreciated your sitting down with us in an informal setting and sharing your ideas with us. It was a nice prelude to tackling the book–which I’m sure is going to be crackling with your usual original and provocative insights. Thanks also to Mary, Salim et al for making it possible.

By: deb schultz

deb schultz — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:23:05 +0000

David – alas I thought I would get out of my earlier event to attend but got stuck and was not done till after 9;30…next time, my loss.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 11 May 2007 06:41:05 +0000

David,
That was a great talk and a great discussion — my apologies for leaving early at 8.

I’m really enjoying the book — it kept me up last night thinking.
Thanks!

By: Betsy Devine

Betsy Devine — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:59:08 +0000

David, I agree with you that the idea of “one truth” is corruptible–as is any elite.

Power corrupts–as the old saying goes, and newspapers remind us. But my two quibbles with your work relate to this issue.

1) Financial/corporate power also corrupts. So why are ecology professors who drive old Volvos more annoying than ExxonMobil execs who spent millions promoting doubt on global warming?

2) Just a few short years of Web 2.0 and “the commons” demonstrate–they’re corruptible also. Or, excuse me, perhaps I should say–*we* are corruptible. Shills, stealth marketing, sock puppets, people paid to Digg stupid stuff…

Anyway, I love your EIM analysis of the many new ways new tech helps us “know” things. But if our modern world is a story with heroes on one side and villains on the other–you and I seem to disagree on who the villains are.

By: mary hodder

mary hodder — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:59:04 +0000

Thanks David. Your discussion was great. Really interesting and provacative.

I’m really curious about this idea of authority, and how we transfer authority from the paper world to the internet. I don’t think anyone has come up with a metric that solves that question, nor do I think we want to let others do that for us. I think the best we can do is have good tools and interfaces that help users see what is happening and decide for themselves.

Mary