From here

I got a chuckle when I read Jon Lebowky’s opening question in an interview here linked to from Jon’s site:

You offer Small Pieces Loosely Joined as a way of thinking about the web. I hate to ask you to summarize a concept that filled
a whole book, but could you give us an abstract of your thinking? Why are they small, and why are they loose?    Read on…..

some highlights: 

The pieces are us and what of ourselves we have put on the Net. The pieces are small because they’re generally fragments of a

life, not carefully researched “products” produced by megacorps. The pieces are loosely joined because the structure of the Web is

determined by the hyperlinks we’ve put in, each one of us, representing our own shifting and amorphous interests.