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Chapter 8:
The main point of chapter 8 is to define meaning, in certain cases meaning behind labels or words that signify a meaning. Metadata for example contains these aspects yet can more than often be confusing or irrelevant to what it actually means. The chapter uses a good example of labeling/metadata and what is real about something when it talks about a jar of jam. It has a label and we automatically know certain things about it, yet if you see this same jar of jam on the internet it may have only a few labels or informative words to it. It is not real compare tot he physical roadside jam. Yet this aspect of something online not having as much information can benefit users because it leaves room for more information such as tagging to be added and give it some kind og organization. All together the chapter puts a great light on implicit and explicit information that's present to the public.

It is important as a DTC major because we need to understand all aspects of how information is organized, distributed, and labeled on the internet, so that we can use it to our advantage in our work. Understanding how metadata works is important so that we are bale to present easily to those who don't understand how it works. Our world is on its way to simplifying a lot of things and being explicit is going to be important in our success.


Chapter 9:
Weinberger talks mainly about messiness and the three orders of mess. Today messiness is becoming the new way of organizing. On the internet everything is clumped together yet you can find things easier than in a shoebox of piled information. As everything once was organized such as photos in a shoebox in a closet, it has now been stored on cameras and memory cards. We don't have to print them to see them and we can even share them with more people than we know. Everyone organizes messes in one way or another and these messes make the information more important because metadata is connecting all of the other data that we need, it just seems like one big mess.

This is important as a DTC major because working in the technological field I will be digitally organizing everything as well as finding everything int he same manner. If I don't know how to sift through the organized mess that the internet has formed then I wont be very productive. Organization will be the key to our careers because there are so many components to our work.