The first two chapters of Weinberger's Everything Is Miscellaneous present the theory that approaching the objects around us, and more essentially our world itself as something that needs to be organized and categorized is incorrect. Instead a miscellaneous approach to organization is best; or more correctly a sort of organization that can cross over between categories and even be spontaneous would best serve us.
In the physical world as we know it today everything has it's exact place. As the book even describes we spend our lives attaining new things, materials or information, and then putting it away, into categories. Most especially we handle the overwhelming amount of information we're collecting in the new digital era by adjoining it to more information. For example Weinberger brings to attention how we categorize our digital photo albums. Much like how we categorize most things on the web, we now use a series of tags, or different labels for categorizing a specific photo, article, event and so on. As Weinberger states this way of ordering information is much easier, as the virtual and digital world makes it possible to attain more information is also makes it possible to preserve and keep more information
Such programs as iTunes make it possible to browse through and listen to millions of songs, where as a store many not be able to stock as many artists, or even the artists or songs you are looking for. Another great example is Flickr or Photobucket which both allow you to look through endless amounts of photos under various search categories. Although Photobucket offers a variety of premade search groups, that are much like Morimer Adler's idea to sepertae the Encyclopaedia Britannica by topics rather than alphabet.
