David WeinbergerEVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 3 p.m., Oct. 3, 2011.

EVENT: David Weinberger, a Harvard scholar who previously worked as a writer for Woody Allen, a philosophy professor, and an Internet adviser to two presidential campaigns, delivers a talk on how the Internet affects what and how we know.

Weinberger is a thought-leader on the intersection of technology, business and society whose articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Wired, and Smithsonian. His latest book, which is due out early next year, is “Too Big to Know,” about the Internet’s effect. He is coauthor of the best-selling “The Cluetrain Manifesto,” an early exploration of Internet marketing that was first published in 2000.

He is currently a senior researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, and a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department.

Weinberger is speaking at the School of Information’s annual John Seely Brown Symposium.

PLACE: Blau Auditorium at the Ross School of Business at 701 Tappan Street in Ann Arbor. Directions are online at http://www.bus.umich.edu/VisitUs/MapsDirections.htm.

CONTACT: Glenda Bullock, (734) 647-7313 or [email protected]

SPONSOR: U-M School of Information.

WEBSITE: http://si.umich.edu/newsandevents/jsb-symposium-david-weinberger