David Weinberger

David Weinberger is a philosopher who writes about the effect of technology on ideas. He has been a philosophy professor, journalist, strategic marketing consultant to high tech companies, internet entrepreneur, advisor to several presidential campaigns and a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department. He was a gag writer for the comic strip “Inside Woody Allen” from 1976-83. Formerly, he served as the co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. He is the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Everything Is Miscellaneous, Too Big to Know and the co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto. At the Shorenstein Center, he wrote about news media through the lens of open platforms.