Defrag Blog

I’m only 19 pages into David Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous (or, “EiM” in eric shorthand), but I’ve already found one treasure of an idea. On page 13, as the good doctor is beginning to deal with the sheer overabundance of information in the digital world, he throws off this great quote:

“…the solution to the overabundance of information is more information.”

Now, I know I’m not the smartest guy in the room, but for some reason this statement stopped me in my tracks. It is so obvious, and yet I’ve never quite heard it phrased that way. I’ll probably never get around to reviewing the entire book (like so many are doing), but I will try to point out things like this as they hit me. All of this will be your cue to sit back and say, “why the hell didn’t Norlin know that before?”

With regards to the above idea, I’m already swirling around tags, twitters, aggregators, etc — and thinking “of course!”

(In case you haven’t noticed, David is keynoting Defrag.)

[update: if you’d like to see David talk about this a bit, go here for the interview he gave at Yahoo!. And if you’d prefer to just read a bit, check this out.