Coast to Coast AM November 10-2012 Rethinking Knowledge

Coast to Coast AM November 10-2012 Rethinking Knowledge

Date: 11-10-12
Host: John B. Wells
Guests: David Weinberger, Douglas Dietrich

We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. But in the Internet age, there's more knowledge than ever, and nobody agrees on anything. Researcher and author David Weinberger joined John B. Wells to discuss how business, science, education, and the govt. are learning to use networked knowledge to understand more, and make smarter decisions than they could previously.

In the first hour, renegade military historian Douglas Dietrich offered his thoughts in light of Veterans Day.

Biography:

The Wall Street Journal has called David Weinberger 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. 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.

He is a columnist for Knowledge Management World and writes a well-known weblog, Joho the Blog. He was a philosophy professor for six years, a gag writer for Woody Allen's comic strip for seven years, a humor columnist, 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 a Senior Researcher at the prestigious Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society and is Co-Director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab.