David Weinberger

Biography

The Wall Street Journal called him a “marketing guru.” He’s the co-author of the The Cluetrain Manifesto, the bestseller that cut through the hype and told business what the Web was really about. His latest book, Small Pieces Loosely Joined has been published to rave reviews hailing it as the first book to put the Internet in its deepest context.

He’s been a frequent commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He’s written for the “Fortune 500” of business and tech journals, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Guardian, and Wired. Journalists from The New York Times, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, InformationWeek, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and many more turn to him for insight. He is a columnist for Knowledge Management World and il sole 24 ore, and writes an influential business technology newsletter and a well-known daily weblog, Joho the Blog.

He was a philosophy professor for six years, a comedy writer for Woody Allen for seven years, a humor columnist for Oregon’s major daily newspaper, a dot-com entrepreneur before most people knew what a home page was, and a strategic marketing consultant to household-name multinationals and the most innovative startups. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and is currently a Fellow at the prestigious Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His book Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is being published by Times Books in May 2007.

He is also one of the most entertaining and acclaimed presenters around.

Dr. David Weinberger turns this remarkable range of experience and knowledge to the most important question facing every business today: How is technology changing the way my employees, partners and customers are putting themselves together, and how is that changing the basics of my business?

Presentations at Topic Maps 2008

Everything is Miscellaneous

Visions of Subject-Centric Computing