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Source: www.britannica.com --- 20 days ago
Looking past Clay Shirky’s characterization of me as a “know-nothing,” I find I am in agreement with central parts of his “take.” But there are several notions, or assumptions, I would take issue with. For some deep comprehension of our inheritance, including the work of the now-derided Leo Tolstoy, is essential. The grist being milled by the pundits might not be stuff enough. Vision toward needs a sense of vision from . Knowing nothing is more to be feared than the know-nothings---for the nothing that they know comprises the evolved culture of millennia. ... Source: www.britannica.com --- 20 days ago
I want to respond to Clay Shirky. I've read War and Peace twice. It's one of my very favorite novels, and I love it---it's enormously interesting. In Clay's view, it seems, the new speed and deeply social nature of intellectual discourse means that, soon, the only relevant discourse will occur in blog- or Twitter-sized chunks. Is this the hip "upstart literature," proudly "diverse, contemporary, and vulgar," that is now "the new high culture"? If so, God help us. ... Source: www.britannica.com --- 20 days ago
It’s telling that Shirky uses gauzily religious terms to describe the Internet---“our garden of ethereal delights”---as what he’s expressing here is not reason but faith. I hope he’s right, but I think that skepticism is always the proper response to techno-utopianism. Read on ... ... Source: www.britannica.com --- 14 days ago
My old sparring partner Clay Shirky is at it again. Responding on the Britannica website to Nick Carr's Atlantic piece about the decline of reading, he tells us that War and Peace and À La Recherche du Temps Perdu aren't significant accomplishments because they are too long and dense. This is a straw man argument, of course ... ... Source: upcoming.yahoo.com --- 28 days ago
Chair: Paul Miller (CEO School of Everything and Demos Associate) Speaker: Clay Shirky (Writer, Consultant and Adjunct Professor, New York University) "Clay will be discussing some of the major themes from his new book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Here Comes Everybody is a book about the social effects of technology. Clay integrates a broad range of disciplines with his own pioneering work to understand the opportunities and the threats new, spontaneous networks of social interaction represent. Wikinomics, yes, but also wikigovernment, and wikimedia. A revolution in social organization has begun and at lunchtime this coming Monday we’re going to discuss what the consequences of this revolution is likely to mean for governments, democracy and society." ... Source: www.colbertnation.com --- 15 days ago
Submitted by Nacho Simon Send your Colbert Bumps here! ... Source: www.ted.com --- 16 days ago
In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. ... Source: communityguy.disqus.com --- 24 days ago
var ecov = “sh”; document.write(unescape(””)); ... Source: weblogg-ed.com --- 26 days ago
Well, despite some technical issues (Skype video not working behind the NYU firewall (go figure) and just a complete drop of my Internet connection about half way through) here are the 2-part archives of my (or should I say “our”) interview of Clay Shirky along with the at times compelling chat conversation from UStream. (Apologies [...] ... Source: twitter.com --- 11 days ago
weskimcom: Reading Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody. A little rambly, but a good read after Tipping Point. ... Source: blogs.cioinsight.com --- 44 days ago
Clay Shirky summarizes his new book : "group action just got easier." He points to some interesting organizational initiatives . So far, at least, much political energy online goes into stopping things or protesting them. We're waiting for political groups that can produce outcomes on their own. ... Source: johndotorgslashblog.wordpress.com --- 63 days ago
A little while back I posted a note on Clay Shirky’s keynote address at the Web 2.0 Expo held in late April this year. It’s a lengthy speech to read on text, so here’s the 15-minute address presented in two seperate YouTube clips. and Part 2: It’s an amazing look into the future about how the internet [...] ... Source: www.thewavingcat.com --- 39 days ago
I just got myself a copy of Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (buy on amazon.com). Haven’t even started reading it thoroughly, but it’s definitively a very dense, rich book, that’s clear already. I’ll be posting some thoughts on the book when I read it. But even before, I’d like [...] ... Source: www.zweinull.cc --- 64 days ago
Dem New Yorker Professor und Verfasser von “Here comes everybody” Clay Shirky hatten wir hier bereits mit seiner wunderbaren Keynote zur Web2Expo lauschen können. Mario Sixtus aka Der Elektrische Reporter hat nun die Tage die Möglichkeit gehabt, mit Shirky ausführlich zu reden. Clay Shirky spricht im ER-Video über die allgemeinen Auswirkungen des Internets auf die Gesellschaft, dass [...] ... Source: www.cybersoc.com --- 21 days ago
Clay Shirky @ Demos Originally uploaded by robinhammanClay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, spoke today at a free event organised by Demos. He discussed, amongst other things, my.barackobama which, soon after it launched, faced a backlash from within because... ...
Source: www.britannica.com --- 17 days ago
Looking past Clay Shirky’s characterization of me as a “know-nothing,” I find I am in agreement with central parts of his “take.” But there are several notions, or assumptions, I would take issue with. For some deep comprehension of our inheritance, including the work of the now-derided Leo Tolstoy, is essential. The grist being milled by the pundits might not be stuff enough. Vision toward needs a sense of vision from . Knowing nothing is more to be feared than the know-nothings---for the nothing that they know comprises the evolved culture of millennia. ...
Source: twitter.com --- 29 days ago
hrheingold: @smalljones Look at Jill Rettberg's book for excerpts, also excerpts from Clay Shirky's for all those topics. ... Find more results for Clay Shirky on RSSMicro.com |
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