David Weinberger

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David Weinberger (born 1950 in New York), is a technologist, professional speaker,^[1] and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book). Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society.

A philosopher by training, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and taught college from 1980-1986. He was a gag writer for the comic strip "Inside Woody Allen" from 1976-1983.^[2] He became a marketing consultant and executive at several high tech companies, and currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He is also an avid blogger.^[3] He is a sometime Wikipedia editor. He had the title Senior Internet Advisor to Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.

His next book, Everything is Miscellaneous, deals with evaluating the authoritativeness (in his term, the "authority") of knowledge sources; among other things, Wikipedia will be discussed.

Contents 1 Published works 2 Other works 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] Published works

• The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual (with Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, and Doc Searls, 2001) ISBN 0-7382-0431-5
• Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web (2002)
• Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (forthcoming, May 2007) ISBN 0805080430

[edit] Other works

• World of Ends, What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else (with Doc Searls)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Gold Stars Speakers Bureau - David Weinberger
2. ^ On the Move: Web philosopher finds a thrill in evolving medium
3. ^ Joho the Blog

[edit] External links

• Home page
• Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization Weinberger's personal site
• Joho the Blog
• Harvard/Berkman Center page
  • Web of Ideas: The Authority of Wikipedia includes Samuel Klein and Aaron Swartz
  • Fellow: Is Wikipedia Legit? - (note, however, that Weinberger writes of this article: "For example, an article in the Harvard Crimson got my position on the reliability of Wikipedia backwards. Argh. And the entry on me in Wikipedia links to it as a reliable account of what I said. Double argh.")
• Website for Small Pieces
• Recent talk at the Oxford Internet Institute
• The Authority of Wikipedia, an article in Harvard Crimson
• 2003 interview with Frank Paynter
• Video interview with Mario Sixtus
• Podcast interview (Vier Nasen tanken Super)
• David Weinberger on the Web 2.0, on ThoughtCast
• Video interview (english, german intro and germen subtitles)