The document summarizes David Weinberger's views on how the internet is changing media and our relationship to information. Some key points are:
1) The web is not a single medium, but rather allows content to be disassociated from any single medium and spread across many mediums through hyperlinks.
2) In the hyperlinked, abundant world of the internet, metadata about content is becoming more valuable than the content itself for finding and understanding information.
3) Traditional sources of authority like experts, canonical texts, and certified answers are being supplemented or replaced by new forms of authority derived from user contributions, tags, comments, and social networks.
Venice Sessions IV - David Weinberger - Between Media and World
1. Between Media and World
David Weinberger Ph.D.
Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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Venice Sessions - Telecom Italia
October 20. 2009
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