David Weinberger

David Weinberger (2008)

David Weinberger (* 1950 in New York ) is an American speaker, author and philosopher on the subject of the Internet . He conducts research at Harvard University .

David Weinberger received his PhD in 1979 from the University of Toronto on Heidegger's ontology of things . He is particularly concerned with the question of how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication and society. The Cluetrain Manifesto , which Weinberger wrote together with Rick Levine , Christopher Locke and Doc Searls in 1999, became famous . Around 2002 he coined the term Infopinion , which refers to the connection between information and opinion.

Publications

German editions

• Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls: The Cluetrain Manifesto. 95 theses for the new corporate culture in the digital age . Econ Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-430-15967-9
• The end of the drawer: The power of the new digital disorder , Munich, Hanser, 2008, ISBN 3-446-41221-2
• Too big to know. Rethinking knowledge, because facts are no longer facts, the experts sit everywhere and the smartest person in the room is the room , Huber, 2013, ISBN 3-456-85235-5

English editions

• Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web (2002)
• Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (2007) ISBN 0-8050-8043-0
• Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. Basic Books 2012, ISBN 0-465-02142-5
• Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We're Thriving in a New World of Possibility , Harvard Business Review Press 2019, ISBN 9781633693951

Web links

Commons : David Weinberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage
• Weinberger's side at harvard.edu (Engl.)
• From the series Talks at Google: Weinberg's lecture "Everything is Miscellaneous" on May 10, 2007 via Youtube
• Harvard lecture on the book "Too Big to Know" from January 2012 via Youtube