... entries on P2P or file sharing in the index? Again, zero!???This omission is a monumental failure on Shirky???s behalf and ???an indication???- to Stalder  at least ??? ???of how constrained discourse has become, particularly in ... read Shirky???s book. Rest assured it???s an issue I want to return to once I have. Technorati tags: Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, Felix Strader, Copyright, DRM

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. Watch This Video in Alphaverse:"TEDTalks : Institutions vs. collaboration - Clay Shirky (2005)" Watch on TED.com"TEDTalks : Institutions vs. collaboration - Clay Shirky (2005)"

... second time this year I was at the Web 2.0 Expo and missed Clay Shirky's presentation, but thank God for the Internet! Here are Clay's presentations.  They are both worth watching but if you're a publisher, and you only have time for one, invest the 16 minutes ... seconds needed to view the San Francisco talk. In SF Clay discussed our natural human propensity to consume, produce, and ...

From the author of Here Comes Everybody, some inspiring ideas… A Wiki for the Planet: Clay Shirky on Open Source Environmentalism | Wired Science from Wired.com: Wired.com: Can you talk about how social applications could help solve environmental problems? Clay Shirky: There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement [...]

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter FailureThere are a couple of stories in this short talk. One is the story of the student from Ryerson *University* who is charged for creating a study group on Facebook. Can we create online learning environments that support collaboration and also filter out free-riders?

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008) by Clay Shirky is yet another book about the effect of social networking on the internet.  And a pretty good one at that, kind of like Groundswell without the business management emphasis.  Shirky's main point is not so much that new technologies are changing the [...]