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Here Comes Everybody: the Internet as a catalyst for social change

So, I’m not quite finished with Clay Shirky’s new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, but it’s too good to hold off posting. His take on the state of the newspaper is especially great:
We’ve long regarded the newspaper as a sensible object because it has been such a stable one, [...]

Posted by on Sunday, May 11, 2008, at 11:41 pm — no comments Tagged , , , .

Social production: why it’s important, and how it’s at risk

The Wikipedia, Creative Commons, and free and open source and software are brilliant, wonderful things. They’re examples of forms of collaboration never before possible, and are just a glimmer of what’s to come. But they’re not guaranteed.
Yochai Benkler says it far better than I could:
Social production is a real fact, not a fad. [...]

Posted by on Thursday, May 1, 2008, at 10:07 am — 2 comments Tagged , , , , .