Everything is Miscellaneous

KM World,  November, 2007  by McKellar, Hugh

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An interview with David Weinberger

Longtime KMWorld columnist David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, recently discussed his new book with Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor in chief.

HM: I was talking to a friend of mine about your new book and her first reaction was to the title, Everything is Miscellaneous. And she couldn't get the distinction between miscellaneous and random.

DW: I use the word miscellaneous in a slightly non-traditional way, so the title can be confusing to people. Normally the miscellaneous is the category of stuff that has nothing in common with the other things ...

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