Everything is Miscellaneous, Wienberer, Prologue and chapters 1,2,3

First of all me start by saying that this reading was a lot of good haterade.  Hopefully my readers know what that means haha.  Basically David Weinberger goes on to just talk about how we do things now, and just say "no, dude there's an easier way to do that if you just stop being stubborn!  For example in the prologue, he talks about Staples and how its all organized to better customers to find what they want.  And he even interviews some of the workers like Mike Morgan for example and Liz McGowan.  These people want us to find things with minimal steps, yet they order things to sell more faster, basically profit is what dominates this whole organization.  They even put the dog treats lower on the shelves because kids are more likely to get their parents to buy them, and also handicapped customers in wheel chairs will have a hard time looking at shelves because they were built for people standing, looking eye to eye, basically taller then 4 ft high.  So what does David say about this? Its all worthless, because now in the digital world, we don't have to be stuck looking for what we want, asking for it, annoyed at how long its taking us, it can only be a few clicks away.  Everything doesn't need to be organized to be faster, because we all have our different wants and needs, everyone is not going to staples with the same grocery list.

In chapter 1 he also hates on some pretty big names.  First of all the most important parts of chapter 1 I found was about the orders.  Like how paper has limitations compared to the third order which is digital.  Before labels had to be smaller then the thing they were labeling, but online labels can catalog, have a link, ratings, and so on.  Way more then the old labels limited to paper.  He talks about Bill Gates who wasted millions of dollars on building a way to preserve the Bettmann Archive.  Which I thought was pretty funny because Bill Gates, seriously, as rich as you are?  You cant come up with a better way to reach information on those photos?  He talks about how long it takes if you wanted to look up a picture with a soldier on the battlefield eating, thats one pictured, but someone would have to take awhile to find that one picture.  If he only labeled it better, like how we find things on the internet, and can actually see the picture of it without taking it out of its freezing state, it would be a lot easier to get to that information.  He basically says that everything doesn't have to be so neat, so organized, that information that is messier in the way we put it could be easier for us, the customer, anyone to find what we need faster.

In chapter 2 David talks down alphabetization a lot. Man I hate typing that word haha.  He simply puts that alphabetization isn't needed anymore.  I mean back in the day it was heavenly, God wanted it. Its funny that Giovanni di Genoa wrote 400 pages explaining how to alphabetize haha.  And he didn't do it alone.  But back to the main point, basically saying screw alphabetization.  Everything has its own places, not just one place, and we are smart enough now to get what we want without it.

As for organizing something in my life, I would have to say movies.  Back home we watch movies a lot.  Im not hardcore but we keep all the dvds in one section, blue rays in one, and vhs another section.  I put all the ones I watch mostly in a corner of the top shelf of the dvd section.  I got my favorites, animes, shows, and so on.  My brother is more into the blue rays so he has his own section within that section. And everyone in the family knows their own spots where the movies are.  We know when someone messes with them and doesnt put something back to haha, it gets bad.  Looking for a movie sucks, especially when you really want to watch it, so bending over on ur knees looking through hella vhs sucks.  Thats why most of the favorites are in the open, and i guess you can say Staple eye level haha.  But im the tallest, and im left handed, so the top left handed corner of the shelf is all me =).