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.
David Weinberger: Why Blogging Still Matters
August 31, 2015
August 31, 2015 — David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015), writes about how on the surface, blogging seems to have diminished with the rise of Facebook and with mainstream news outlets producing content that is more casual in tone. Yet, a closer look reveals that the practice of
