Everything is Miscellaneous

David Weinberger's Google TechTalk on his book Everything Is Miscellaneous. He criticizes rigid classification schemes such as the Dewey Decimal system and argues that digital information can be organized in many ways at once.

HN people rewatch it as the talk on classification whose ideas still hold up, and cite its take on Melvil Dewey and the limits of taxonomies.

“This is one of those videos I rewatch regularly, because the ideas hold up so well, even today.”