In the university library, we know when a book has been used in a class or put on reserve… or while it was out, did somebody call it back in. It turns out to be a pretty good indicator of how relevant the work is at that time. David Weinberger Read Quote
How your social network – the people that you know, or in your community – understand or value a work can be… a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it’s going to be to you. David Weinberger Read Quote
In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts. David Weinberger Read Quote
History keeps teaching us that we can’t recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. David Weinberger Read Quote
We’ve organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles. David Weinberger Read Quote