Everything is miscellaneous Chapter 5 and 6

In chapter 5 Weinberger talks about ordering the miscellaneous. Turning the clean silverware in the dishwater into some sort of orderly masterpiece or leaving it in a pile until you need to order it to use, like at a table setting. In the digital world this is done through tagging. Leaving the information as miscellaneous until it is called upon through a tag. Tagging is done in blogging, photos, and other such digital media/ places. The idea of tagging reminds me of what I do to my textbooks. I mark specific pages with different colors that symbolize different things. There is a specific order and reason to the way I "tag" things.

"We have been like the proverbial seven blind men feeling the elephant, except unlike the narrator of the story, we've had to pick our favorite blind man."

"The gap between how we access information and how the computer accesses it is at the heart of the revolution of knowledge."

Chapter 6 discusses tools such as barcodes, UPC and RFID used to label information and physical items in an attempt to organize the physical world. These tools make up the leaves of the digital tree and further order the world. When Weinberger discusses the checker ringing something up six times with the same UPC, I thought about when I worked retail. The computer is able to scan the six barcodes entered as seperate items easily deleting them from the inventory list.
"It's a perfect example of the wisdom of the basic two-pronged strategy for going miscellaneous: include and postpone."

"Modern biologists are more like "accidentalists" than essentialists."