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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
Required reading for school. Overall, this book has some good concepts. However, it is sadly out of date. I'm really surprised it's still included in the curriculum. Search engines and the way we interact with the web is so different from when this book first came out. The book mentions that Netflix is still mailing DVDs. There's a wary example of a GPS wrist device for children, which reminded me how everyone has those on their wrist's now with an Apple watch. It also has a lot of the "sky is falling" rhetoric that I remember from around 2005 when I went through undergrad. I would like a new edition of this book to see how the author's ideas play in 2020.
Desperately in need to a second edition, too much of this dated, with unfamiliar jargon that clearly never caught on. Doesn’t help that so many pop-cultural science and pop-tech writers have heavily mined (ie. ripped this off) in the years since it was written. I can see why it was highly influential at the time though. Was an assigned text for my library degree, makes me think the syllabus needs updating.
Read this for grad school. Actually, much better than I expected. It was written long enough ago that all the discussions about social networking don't yet mention Facebook. Makes me realize how fast things advance in the technology world.
This one is tough to rate. It is a fun and interesting read, but it feels like it's mostly full of trivia. I learned a lot of cool "Did you know?!" type of things, but not so much that felt really academic. I had loved this book at the start, but (as other reviews I've read mentioned) it feels like the whole book is an introduction.
If you're interested in a light read about how people use information, give this a shot.
If you're interested in a light read about how people use information, give this a shot.
Fantastic book, especially considering it's relatively dated (2005). A must-read for librarians and information scientists and anyone who is more than a little bit curious about the Internet.
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
This is the second time I have tried to read this and sort of lost interest before getting halfway through. (Should I be admitting that as a techie librarian? Probably not.) If I try this again, I will have to be sure to start at the halfway point.
As a side note, Morville is a fantastic speaker. I saw him last year.
As a side note, Morville is a fantastic speaker. I saw him last year.
There have been times when I saw down with a topic and I just couldn’t get the words and the ideas to align. There were other times when the idea was so powerful that the words seemed insufficient. This is the case with Ambient Findability. Peter Morville is speaking of the changes in thinking that are happening all around us and how we acquire information. There’s research to support the fundamental premise that we acquire much of what we know based on passive and indirect access to information. In other words, we’re not looking and we don’t know what we’d be looking for even if we were. Marcia Brown believes that 80% of the information we learn is gathered this way.
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