{"id":486,"date":"2011-04-06T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/?p=486"},"modified":"2011-04-06T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T21:55:10","slug":"david-weinberger-at-beyond-books-whats-the-opposite-of-long-form-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/2011\/04\/06\/david-weinberger-at-beyond-books-whats-the-opposite-of-long-form-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"David Weinberger at \u201cBeyond Books\u201d \u2014 what\u2019s the opposite of long-form thought?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/recorded\/13820139\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH VIDEO OF WEINBERGER&#8217;S TALK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/david-weinberger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-487\" src=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/david-weinberger-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/david-weinberger-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/david-weinberger-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/david-weinberger-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/david-weinberger-1200x896.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/477\/2011\/04\/david-weinberger.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What&#8217;s the opposite of long-form thought? Is it web-thought. <a href=\"http:\/\/evident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Weinberger <\/a>helps catalyze the conversations at &#8220;Beyond Books&#8221; as he talks about how knowledge is becoming transitional, not fixed in form.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;A web of knowledge based on human interests is a more logical expression of the world than long-form argument,&#8221; he says.\u00a0 The result &#8212; the crumbling of institutions such as encyclopedias and newspapers.\u00a0 &#8220;one part of the answer &#8212; we re tired of being talked to,&#8221; says Weinberger. Also, he says, the world is too big, there is too much to know, and knowledge can no longer be hemmed in.\u00a0 It is now &#8220;always an argument,&#8221; rich, curious, open-ended. &#8220;We knew that all along and the moment we were able to have a medium that expressed that basic fact, we ran to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH VIDEO OF WEINBERGER&#8217;S TALK What&#8217;s the opposite of long-form thought? Is it web-thought. David Weinberger helps catalyze the conversations at &#8220;Beyond Books&#8221; as he talks about how knowledge is becoming transitional, not fixed in form. &#8220;A web of knowledge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/2011\/04\/06\/david-weinberger-at-beyond-books-whats-the-opposite-of-long-form-thought\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-information"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/biblionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}