David Weinberger

He writes about the impact of technology in our lives. Co-author of "The Cluetrain Manifesto", with no translation in Brazil, this best seller comes to business in the advent of the Internet revolution. His latest book "Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder" was published in Brazil as "The new digital disorder", published by Campus-Elsevier.

His work appears frequently in "Harvard Business Review", "USA Today", "Wired, Salon”, “The Guardian”, "Foreign Affairs" and numerous other publications. He is also a commentator on “National Public Radio” and writes a column for "KMWorld" and "Il Sole 24" (an Italian newspaper about finances). The "Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council" appointed him "Mover and Shaker" in 2007. He keeps the blog Joho (www.JohoTheBlog.com) and conducts seminars in different parts of the world for different types of audiences such as business, government and academia.

He is currently a researcher at Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and has taught politics and culture on the Internet at Harvard Law, and is consultant to the Harvard Law Library for the Digital Lab.

Dr. Weinberg has being worked as Marketing VP in technology companies and introduced the first "wysiwyg" (what you see is what you have), the first graphics and text processor, the first documents managing corporate system, the first suite of corporate intranet and the first Yahoo search engine. As a marketing consultant he has worked with several companies of the Fortune 500 list (ranking of the largest US corporations, published annually).

He has been an Internet consultant for presidential campaigns, including the campaign of Howard Dean. He keeps active in electronic government projects.

David holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for six years before entering the world of high technology. He lives in Boston and, currently has being worked on a book about the Internet effects in expertise and knowledge.


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