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January 20th, 2007 by David Weinberger

Samples

The prologue and first chapter of Everything Is Miscellaneous are available in their entirety:

Prologue: Information in Space

Chapter 1: The New Order of Order

Also, Wired.com ran 4-5 pages on Linnaeus on the occasion of the Old Classifier’s birthday. It’s here, along with an introduction.

17 Responses to “Samples”

  1. on 01 May 2007 at 7:46 am1 Jill Coghlan

    Hi David,
    I was at the Berkman lecture last night and didn’t buy the book, and didn’t know why I was hesitating. But I realized I’d like to be able to read portions of it at a time, and have electronic access to it.

    Isn’t this the “perfect” book to be available electronically?

    Jill Coghlan (J7)
    Data Librarian
    CT State Data Center
    (who is curious how to get sample and financial data to be more comparable in a web-like space, but who asked about Gregory Bateson instead).

  2. on 01 May 2007 at 11:02 pm2 David Weinberger

    Jill,

    I don’t think my book is particularly well-suited to electronic access because it’s a long, continuous read of the sort that people generally don’t want to do on screen as of yet, although it would be nice as an option. Online isn’t an option with this book, however, because I went with the dominant paradigm; this book is for me both a labor of love and a way to make money (I hope).

    Thanks for the Bateson question last night.

  3. on 02 May 2007 at 10:18 pm3 Keith

    Hi David, Could you please put up a sample? Lots of people on the interwebs like me might buy the book if they could check it out first. There is nothing on Amazon either.

    Also, consider adding a little autobiography?

  4. on 08 May 2007 at 7:37 am4 Jace

    I too went to my local online bookstore (fabmall.com) and found it unavailable. I then tried firstandsecond.com, a site I’ve previously had a bad experience with, and found it there, but with a direct US$ conversion price.

    I don’t mean to sound cheap, but I think I’ll wait for the paperback edition. A sample would have helped decide if I really ought to plunk Rs 1157.50 on the hardcover.

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  6. on 15 May 2007 at 1:50 am6 Jace

    Thanks!

  7. on 15 May 2007 at 9:34 am7 Serge Lescouarnec

    David

    Visited your ‘book’ site back in February and kinda forgot about it until today when I noticed a link back from ‘Everything..’ to ‘Serge the Concierge’.

    I will take a look at the excerpts and write something about your new opus possibly today.

    Will you make a book tour stop in New York or New Jersey?
    I would like to attend if you do.

    Take care

    Serge
    ‘The French Guy from New Jersey’
    Blog:
    http://www.sergetheconcierge.com

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  9. on 20 Jun 2007 at 9:30 pm9 Kaptain Kwantity

    It’s cool that we don’t need experts to tell us that a Google search for “American history” gets 750 million hits!

    …because any idiot can see it gets 20 million.

    Great job, idiot.

  10. on 23 Jun 2007 at 4:08 pm10 David Weinberger

    Kaptain, try it with and without quotes.

    And try not being ad hominem.

  11. on 30 Jun 2007 at 11:13 am11 Glenn Zucman

    David,
    Congratulations! I’ve enjoyed your voice and ideas on many Berkman Center podcasts and it’s nice to see this arrive on papyrus.

    I’m the host of Strange Angels, KBCH Radio’s weekly broadcast of interviews:
    http://www.artboy.info/strange/listen.html

    Will you be in the Los Angeles area any time in 2007 or so? I’d love to record an interview for broadcast on the show.

  12. on 15 Aug 2007 at 12:13 am12 Tom Lowenhaupt

    I was at the 17th Street Barnes & Noble this evening and standing next to the table at which William Gibson was signing copies of Spook Country. Gibson noticed the woman asking that he sign her copy was using an iPhone and asked if he could take a look. “First one I’ve seen.”

    He asked if he could look inside. She took it back and tried opening it but gave up with a “got me” shrug. Gibson began entering some txt and commented that it did corrections. Then she asked if he’d sign the phone as well as Spook Country. He agreed, turning it over and scrawling a giant William Gibson is black marker.

    A miscellaneous combo that would sell big on ebay I bet.

  13. on 24 Aug 2007 at 1:47 pm13 Carol

    Tom: That was me. The phone will not be for sale for a very, VERY long time. At least not until iPhone Gen2 arrives…I am still (very carefully and protectedly) using it! ;-)

    Carol Wade, NYC

  14. on 25 Sep 2007 at 12:38 pm14 Jack B. Nimble

    i dont like anything that you write. its all really boring and weird. maybe if you made a movie i would watch that crap.

  15. on 17 Oct 2007 at 5:46 pm15 Hilary

    I just started skimming your first chapter, partially about signage and information finding. Then I navigated away to a different window, and when I wanted to come back, I couldnt figure out which browser window contained your book sample. Turns out it’s because the page is titled “Untitled Document”….

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