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David Weinberger

David Weinberger (born 1950) is an American technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "a primer on Internet marketing" ). Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, knowledge and society.

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Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium. . . think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's talking in our own voices about things we want to hear about.

Conversation, Internet, Opposites, Talking, Think, Thinking

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

Business, Conversation, Defining, Work

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

Darwin, Data, Exotic, Landscape, Likely, Wandering

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

Conversation, Having, Jobs, Knowledge, Learning, People

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

Collector, Collectors, Dust, Metadata

How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.

Dream, Interests, Needs, Our World, Passion, Reflects

It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.

Away, Diminishes, Giving, Hoarding, Knowledge, Who You Know

Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible.

Becoming, Hyperlinked, Marketing, Organization

Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

Automatic, Individuals, Messages, Pieces, Tailoring, Who We Are

The cure to information overload is more information.

Cure, Cures, Information, Information Overload, Overload

Transparency is the new objectivity

Objectivity, Transparency

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.

Conversation, Elements, Internet, Persistence, World

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

Best Times, History, Idiot, Seeker, Seekers

Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

Knowledge, Liberates, Metadata

The smartest person in the room, is the room.

Person, Persons, Room, Rooms, Smartest