datacloud ...

... "The sheer amount of information in our current lives -- the infosphere we individually inhabit -- threatens our ability to sort it into neat categories, to summarize it in simple terms. ... We live in a cloud of data, the datacloud -- a shifting and only slightly contingently structured information space. In that space, we work with information, rearranging, filtering, breaking down, and combining. We are not looking for simplicity, but intersting juxtapositions and commentaries. This is the vague shape and erratic trajectory of the coming revolution."

A Must-read: Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Datacloud. Toward a New Theory of Online Work. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2005. p. 4
Quoting (among many others): Stuart Hall, Foucault, Dick Hebdige.
Featuring (among many other points & arguments): Turntablism/Bricolage and its impact on the "symbolic-analytic worker "(the postmodrn Knowledge Worker)

links to self (semantic cloud): #1, #2, #3 (foucault)