Book Review

The book I've chosen to do the book review project on is "Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder" by David Weinberger. The book is fascinating. Until recently, I have been somewhat out of touch with the evolution that has been taking place in libraries and with information technology. While I've always used libraries for my personal reading, I've been out of school for more years than I care to admit. One reason that I came back to school and chose this field was because I wanted to become educated on how information is organized. With the exponential increase in the amount of information out there, it was a question in my mind as to how information would be organized and retrieved. So, this book by David Weinberger was of particular interest to me because he seemed to be proposing that the answer is actually in the disorder of information. He has convinced me :).

For the media presentation aspect of the book review project, I chose “Scoop It”. I’ve created a page entitled “The Third Order of Information” and have been “scooping” information digitally from a variety of sources and publishing them to my site. I think this particular social media site is a perfect example of the “power of the new digital disorder”. Based upon keywords that I choose, the web is searched and content is presented for my review. The content can be "scooped" or discarded. I can add new keywords and select different social media sources to search. Scoop it! has presented me with some very pertinent and interesting information regarding my topic.

Here is the link to my Scoop it! Page:
  

http://www.scoop.it/t/the-third-order-of-information

This is an amazing site and I am anxious to try this out for additional topics of personal interest. If you haven’t used this site already, give it a try! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.