Between Media and World

David Weinberger Ph.D.

Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Self @ evident . comJohoTheBlog.com

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Venice Sessions - Telecom ItaliaOctober 20. 2009

From medium to content

The Web is not a medium

“Digital life is real life.” - Nicola Greco

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The new punctuation

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Content Medium

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Discount

Concur

AmplifyDisagreeAgree

RejectSupport

Extend

Recommend

DenounceDispute

Endorse

Connect

Difference

The change in authority

Authority

The NewsTraditional Canon

CertifiedAnswer

STOPBeliefPoint

Abelardo Morell

Footnote #354: Doe, Jane.A Book Too Far page 546

A Book Too Far, by Jane Doe [Due back on the 12th of next year]

New sources of authority:Metadata

Information

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Island

Reef

Long/Lat

Shoes

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SS Minnow

Temp 67F

Lobster (escaped)

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Conifers

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Search

Metadata Data

Folksonomies

Semantic Web

Mechanical Turk

Crowd SourcingSocial Tagging

Social Searching

Faceted ClassificationWeb 2.0

In the hyper-abundant, hyper-linked world, media’s

value tends toward metadata.

Imperfection

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(cc) Herrolm

@ flickr

Good enough is good enough

Transparency

CertifiedAnswer

STOPBeliefPoint

Certified

Answer

STOPBelief

Point

Media in this new world

“Printed matter will be with us forever” -

Giuseppe Vita

Shared interests

Difference

Mattering

Conversation

Participate with transparent expertise

as someone to whom the world mattersin a voice that accepts the messy differences in how the world matters to us all.

Thank you.

David Weinberger Blog: www . JohoTheBlog . Com

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