The Social Life of Information

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   Andrew on December 7, 2001 at 8:05 am

   Do read this one. It’s a strongly user-centered critique of many of the info-centric threats to traditional institutions (paper publishing, the university) that seemed so likely a few years ago. Most of the predictions the authors made came true: there is something to all those students hanging around those inefficient classrooms, most jobs involve a ton of tacit knowledge that can’t be uploaded to a web site.

   Mostly useful for great arguments against the attitude that more data= more understanding.

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   Uber on December 7, 2001 at 11:23 am

   You have to read this!
   Its one of the few books I keep recommending to all my friends and the first I will review in my weblog (which by the way is in Spanish since im from Argentina)
   And the most important thing in this books is “Technology per se wont change the world, Data per se means nothing”

   So.. by the way… Greeting from the southern country of the world 😉

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   christina on January 25, 2002 at 9:43 am

   I’m reading, I’m reading!

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   paul on March 2, 2002 at 11:10 am

   TSLOI is easily the best-written book in the genre of business buzz. Yet, it suffers from some of the same problems that plague other books written from a management-eye-level: It never gets nitty-gritty; the abstracted quality of the prose begins as a strength and then causes the book to end like a relationship w/o a breakup… just a vague dissolution.
   A lot of the chapters were excerpted on the Web (e.g. at FirstMonday). I think most of the story is contained in any random selection of the book, after which it starts to sound repetitive.

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