Background on David Weinberger

David Weinberger got a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto
in 1978. He then taught philosophy for six years. Because there was no
tenure track where he taught, he left academics and became a marketing
writer for Interleaf in the mid-1980s; Interleaf made early electronic
document software, with special capabilities with structured documents
and SGML. He left in 1994 as VP of Strategic Marketing and became a
marketing consultant. In the mid-1990s, he was VP of Strategic Marketing
for Open Text, a search engine company becoming a pioneer in intranet
collaborative software. Since then he has been a consultant, writer and
speaker.

Throughout his career, he has been a writer, published in a wide range of
journals, from Wired to Harvard Business Review to TV Guide. For almost ten
years, he's been a commentator on "All Things Considered." He is a co-author
of The Cluetrain Manifesto, the author of Small Pieces Loosely joined, and
an early and avid blogger. His new book, Everything Is Miscellaneous, was
published on May 1.

For the past three years, he has been a fellow at Harvard Law's Berkman
Center for Internet & Society. Next year he'll be co-teaching a course at
Harvard Law on whether the Web is different or just more of the same.