In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines a number of topics to illustrate this change. He joins Phil, Scott, and Ben to discuss the book.

He first discusses his background, as well as his previous books (The Cluetrain Manifesto and Small Pieces Loosely Joined). He assesses the new methods of organization and how they are changing how information is used. David also reviews how the changes affect the gatekeepers and what the future might hold for them. He shows how by “going miscellaneous,” anyone can reap rewards from the deluge of information in modern work and life.

See also Digitale (Un-)ordnung (german post) and here (linking to an interview with David Weinberger).

Interesting stuff, like e.g.

The Death of the Page View: How AJAX, RSS, and Widgets Will Force Us to Define a New Metric for User Engagement by Garrick Schmitt

“We”conomics: Monetization of the Evolving Digital Economy by Greg Pomaro

Five Things Every Executive Should Know About Digital in 2007

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In a major move designed to accelerate the long-awaited implementation of Digital Cinema nation-wide, Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. and Christie Digital Systems today jointly announced a preliminary agreement to create the movie industry’s first practical Digital Cinema funding framework. The plan satisfies the diverse concerns of movie studios and exhibitors by standardizing content format, delivery and presentation. It minimizes financial risks for studios and exhibitors by establishing an innovative template that allows private investment in the burgeoning Digital Cinema industry.

In the end the eventual conversion of all screens is the goal. Digital cinema may well be the movie industry’s answer to the threat posed by DVD home theater systems and the like. It also will open up some new business model opportunities for theater owners who should now start to think about business model innovations at last.

Notice the comments by Erik Schonfeld in this Business2.0 article:

Digital looks great for movie studios too. If all 37,000 screens in the country were digital, the studios could save $1 billion to $2 billion a year on distribution costs alone. But the real advantage would be the flexibility gained by both studios and theater owners. Digital distribution promises to make the industry more responsive to the whims of the movie-obsessed public. If a movie became a hit, it could immediately be shown in additional theaters, without a delay while the film canisters were delivered. Theaters could change trailers and advertisements on the fly by just dragging and dropping a few icons on a computer. And it would be much easier to show different versions of the same movie — in different languages, for instance — or to release a movie in different countries simultaneously.

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