Found 69 days, 10 hours, 32 minutes, and 41 seconds ago on
herecomeseverybody.org
I
was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a
British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early
phase of the industrial revolution, was gin. And
it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we
actually started to get ...
Asking the Tough Questions
talkingpointsmemo.comFound 50 days, 19 hours, 31 minutes, and 58 seconds agoI had not seen this interesting OpEd on Myanmar by Robert Kaplan in today's Times . Kaplan approvingly sifts through the arguments for mounting an "humanitarian invasion" of Myanmar, but nevertheless says we must realize that our invasion and possible overthrow of the government could lead to unforeseen ...
Legitimacy and Sustainability
matthewyglesias.theatlantic.comFound 51 days, 18 hours, 12 minutes, and 42 seconds agoBecks at Unfogged reads Heads in the Sand and asks questions :
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metafilter.com
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky on post-broadcast societal outlets.
Found 68 days, 6 hours, 54 minutes, and 18 seconds ago
podcastingnews.com
Author Clay Shirky gave a speech at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008, that touched on his idea of the social surplus - the vast quantity of people's time that is being freed up to do user-generated media, Wikipedia and other useful things as they move their attention from television to the Internet
Along the way, Shirky explained why user-generated media is better than Gilligan's Island :
If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project-every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in-that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought.
Found 67 days, 19 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds ago
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…If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in - that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought...
And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television.
Found 68 days, 13 hours, 35 minutes, and 43 seconds ago
feeds.feedburner.com
Clay Shirky, who teaches and speaks about "new media," has posted the transcript of a speech he gave at the recent Web 2.0 conference, in which he talks about how TV as a whole is effectively a societal response to a surplus of leisure time -- and how much better it would be if those excess brain cycles ...
Found 68 days, 6 hours, 24 minutes, and 13 seconds ago
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Clay Shirky gave the best keynote talk that I caught at Web 2.0 Expo last week. He's posted a transcript, entitled Gin, Television, and Social Surplus on his new book's site (also quite recommended; it makes it onto my "understand the internet" bookshelf). ...
Found 68 days, 2 hours, 46 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
bigpicture.typepad.com
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
Found 68 days, 10 hours, 31 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
noahbrier.com
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
There are a number of gems is this speech from Clay Shirky (in essay form). Two "aha" moments for me:
"No one who works in TV gets to ask that question [where do people find the time to edit Wikipedia]. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years." (People watching a little less TV leaves a whole lot of time.)
"This information may or may not exist some place in society, but it's actually easier for me to try to rebuild it from scratch than to try and get it from the authorities who might have it now.
Found 68 days, 7 hours, 9 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
crofsblogs.typepad.com
Via The Globe and Mail , very bad news for 50 million people who have already had half a century of bad news: Already stricken Myanmar braces for new storm on Friday . Excerpt:
International relief agencies racing against the clock to bring food, medicine and supplies to thousands of Myanmar cyclone victims say a fresh storm headed toward the stricken region could further hamper aid efforts.
The smaller tempest was expected to hit the stricken Irrawaddy delta region early Friday, bringing more rain to the sodden disaster area, where thousands are homeless, missing and threatened by hunger and disease.
Found 50 days, 7 hours, 19 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
futurismic.com
[ via Making Light ]
Found 66 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes, and 1 second ago
enthusiasm.cozy.org
When people talk about the attention economy I've tended to presume they were saying that attention is scarce. Certainly my attention is a limited resource. I certainly have a whole bag of tricks for managing that scarce resource.
Clay Shirky takes a run at this problem in a most excellent recent essay where-in he introduces the delightful term "cognitive surplus." He gets there in a most marvelous way that is just hip slapping funny.
The idea of an attention economy is that there is some gross national product of talent out there.
Found 67 days, 17 hours, 58 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
flutterby.com
A couple of disconnected notes. The first is the usual disheartening observation from a semi-local elementary school talent show, made by a friend: The white kids all think talent is lip-sync to some pop music, the non-Caucasians think it's playing Beethoven on the piano or violin.
The second is that yesterday I went to the hardware store and the bike store, and in the process walked through an antique fair. One of the vendors was selling a "soap box derby" car. A few decades ago, a town like this would generate a surplus of 20-30 of those a year, now they're a collectible.
Found 67 days, 15 hours, 42 minutes, and 28 seconds ago
nielsenhayden.com
I generally hate being read to, and prefer transcripts to watching video of public speakers, but this fifteen-minute Web 2.0 talk by Clay Shirky--about gin, television, the "cognitive surplus," and the true answer to the annoying question in the title of this post--grabbed me and wouldn't let go. ...
Found 68 days, 4 hours, 45 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
tieguy.org
Televisions from days gone by by Neil Anderson . License:
Clay Shirky on how small wikipedia is, relative to the way we've spent our culture's free time for the past fifty years:
So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project-every page, every edit, every ...
Found 68 days, 7 hours, 13 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
faganm.com
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - couple of things here I agree with, couple that I disagree with.
To start with, I thought "journalists" calling non-fad web things fads was going to die years ago. The internet is not a fad. Blogging is not a fad. Sharing stuff on the web, clearly not a fad. Lolcats are a fad. Sharing pictures of your cat is not a fad. This is hardly an opinion. Were people still calling radio a fad when it had as much penetration as blogs do today?
Found 68 days, 6 hours, 14 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
adamsmith.org
Are you annoyed by your council trying to fine you for litter? For a bin over-filled in a minor manner? Why not insist that they the council should also obey the law? Here's a how to guide . Sauces, geese and ganders, no?
That new Libertarian Party. Extremely annoying, don't you think? Taking the ideas straight out of your brain ?
We only need for TV watching habits to change slightly at the margin ffor there to be a huge amount of participation in hte various social networks and projects like Wikipedia :
Found 67 days, 21 hours, 46 minutes, and 53 seconds ago
weblog.sinteur.com
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I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she's going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that wasn't what she was doing. She started rooting around in the cables. And her dad said, "What you doing?" And she stuck her head out from behind the screen and said, "Looking for the mouse.
Found 69 days, 1 hour, 30 minutes, and 8 seconds ago
cephas.net
What a great essay / presentation by Clay Shirky . A couple quotes that stood out to me:
And what did we do with that free time? Well, mostly we spent it watching TV.
We did that for decades. We watched I Love Lucy. We watched Gilligan's Island. We watch Malcolm in the Middle. We watch Desperate Housewives.
Found 68 days, 7 hours, 12 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
ascher.ca
Clay Shirky has another great essay out , which I recommend you go read now.
Just like Robert Sayre , I find it resonating with me, in a few ways. First, I certainly see the societal possibilities of amplifying what feels like an already existing trend. Second, the writers' strike was for me a great personal kick in the pants that I needed to watch less TV. It's as if the drug dealer is out of dope, and so you find that you can just do other things with your time, and you find you don't miss the thing!
Found 68 days, 2 hours, 8 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
antimega.textdriven.com
Sorry to break the regular silence.
A quick note to say I'll be speaking at Futuresonic . Say hello, etc. I really should work out the 3 positions I'm meant to take. They'll probably take the form of "what I did on my holiday". ...
Found 67 days, 15 hours, and 18 seconds ago
influxinsights.com
From a version of the talk Clay gave at Web 2.0 last week.
Found 68 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
gyford.com
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
Found 33 days, 9 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds ago
tinkerx.com
At work, I get to do some research about the information industry and related technology because, well, libraries are deeply involved in the mediasphere. So that's cool. And last week I was reading up on teens (god, I hate the terms "tweens" and "screenagers") and tech. And there's a neat, very recent report from Pew on teens and writing , and another, older study from Fox about " Never Ending Friending " and a NYT article that asks, " Can Cellphones End Global Poverty ," another good report from Pew on the demographics of mobile data use , and on and on.
Found 68 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
semanticwave.com
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus by Clay Shirky has me riveted. I've been reading essays about post-television culture since Alvin Toffler keeled me over half-way through my senior year in high school, but Shirky's write-up of his 2008 Web 2.0 Conference speech is among the best.
The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year. That's about five times the size of the annual U.S. consumption. One per cent of that is 10,000 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation.
Found 68 days, 7 hours, 7 minutes, and 19 seconds ago
rgable.typepad.com
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
Found 68 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
fuzzyco.com
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"Every time you sniff and say somebody has 'too much free time,' the part of you that used to love making things for pure joy dies a little." - Merlin Mann
I'm eliminating the phrase "too much free time" from my vocabulary. Even before I came across this pithy sentence from Merlin , I had been thinking that a lot of the stuff that I do , other people would probably think was a waste of time. So, just because someone else has come up with an odd way to invest their energy , that's no reason for me to belittle them.
Found 67 days, 10 hours, 21 minutes, and 21 seconds ago
shirky.com
(This is a lightly edited transcription of a speech I gave at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.)
I
was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a
British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early
phase of the industrial revolution, ...
Found 69 days, 16 hours, 15 minutes, and 11 seconds ago
terminaldigit.com
The Web today seems to be enamored with Clay Shirky's ideas on "cognitive surplus." I've been making essentially the same argument since I ditched my TV in 2001, but okay, fine, at least now people are listening. Maybe I can get Shirky to add professional sports into the mix along with gin and television--you know, that bit where we as a society deem it appropriate to pay a bunch of guys several million dollars annually to entertain us by moving a ball back and forth for a few hours?
I do, however, have to take slight issue with these lines:
Found 68 days, 10 hours, 31 minutes, and 1 second ago
ideasandthoughts.org
The older concept that struck me in a new way is the fact that while many understand the significant shift in society that is just beginning, many see it as a fad, including educators. Shirky, interviewed by a TV producer about a possible guest appearance defends the producers claim that all this social media was a fad.
Found 69 days, 14 hours, 28 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
bluno.org
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I didn't get a chance to go to any of the Web 2.0 Expo events, talks, or keynotes, but I'm keeping track of some of the post-event items which have made it to the web. Here is a really great transcript from a speach Clay Shirky gave at the conference: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
Roughly put, we're emerging from a post-WWII sitcom induced haze with the advent of truly interactive and social media, and putting our incredible amount of free time into creating, sharing and collaborating on media on the web.
Found 69 days, 11 hours, 10 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
clusterflock.org
I think it's fair to say that if you're interested in Clusterflock, you'll be fascinated by this talk.
Here's a transcript, for those who are distracted by Mr. Shirky's fidgeting around next to the podium: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus .
Found 68 days, 2 hours, 38 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
mtblog.typepad.com
In a world that is increasingly digitally enhanced, how do we ensure that people can be included in the conversations that are happening on the internet - or even at a more basic level can take advantage of cheaper car insurance (which seem to be available through internet only deals)?
This is true not only for society as a whole, but closer to home, as part of this society.
Roughly a third of Britons are considered 'digitally excluded' . I'm chairing a conference on this tomorrow which will be looking at how we can reach this final third.
Found 67 days, 19 hours, 40 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
martinimade.com
* These books are gorgeous. Horrifically fragile -- but gorgeous.
* Anyone local want to split an order of c anvas grocery sacks with me?
* Clay Shirkey on " Gin, Television and Social Surplus ." There's also a video linked at Making Light but I couldn't get it to play in some kind of fashion that didn't make we want to smash my computer. You might have better luck. Regardless, this is the money quote for me:
"The way you explore complex ecosystems is you just try lots and lots and lots of things, and you hope that everybody who fails fails informatively so that you can at least find a skull on a pikestaff near where you're going.
Found 66 days, 18 hours, 50 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
interactivemarketingtrends.blogspot.com
And as many of you will recognise there is the increasing trend of watching TV and using the computer . Do you think there are shows that stimulate creativity and those that don't. Wikipedia would have taken 150 million hours if they had been watching American Idol 2008. Watch the video above or read the transcript.
Found 54 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
phronesisaical.blogspot.com
Today, Joshua Marshall writes,
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stephenfrug.blogspot.com
How deep does it go? This is how deep. In response to the first of these "should we invade Burma?" speculations, Josh Marshall quite reasonably wrote
Found 49 days, 13 hours, 14 minutes, and 59 seconds ago
knitv.com
After reading this article about how unproductive watching TV is I thought I'd get a handle on just how much reading I need to do to get caught up on my education (although I prefer to read non-fiction, so I'd have a longer list if this was a list of biographies or something). So here is my version of the book meme floating around:
Below are the top 106 books tagged "unread" in Librarything .
The rules:
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projectorfilms.blogspot.com
From here ...
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freyburg.com
Internet smart guy Clay Shirky recently gave a lecture about how big changes are masked by a calming influence until societies are ready to adapt . He points to gin as the dampening effect of the Industrial Revolution, with most Britain drunk and surly until they stopped seeing urbanism as a threat and started seeing it as an asset. Same with television, which narcotized a public faced with one-way communication and nuclear deterrence. Now we're in a two-way age, with blogs and Wikipedia and Youtube, and we're growing into a world where participation will be the norm, not the exception.
Found 68 days, 19 hours, 30 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
weblog.blogads.com
Clay Shirky ties together gin, sitcoms and lolcats: It's better to do something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute pictures of kittens made even cuter with the addition of cute captions, hold out an invitation to participation. When you see a lolcat, one of the things it says to the viewer is, "If you have some fancy sans-serif fonts on your computer, you can play this game, too." And that's message--I can do that, too--is a big change. I've been arguing for a while that blogging and web 2.
Found 68 days, 18 hours, 22 minutes, and 48 seconds ago
ronbailey.us
Clay Shirky - Gin, Television and Social Surplus
"So how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project-every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in-that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought.
Found 68 days, 18 hours, 21 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
wannabeadman.blogspot.com
Simply put, we can't work harder with the information we have been given. But we can work smarter, and build upon what we already know - that people's cognitive attention spans are limited, and, as Clay Shirky puts it here , look for "[that] place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, "If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?
Found 68 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
ricardo.strangevistas.net
I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.
The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation.
So begins Clay Shirky's article on how media is changing , and how some people just don't get the reasons for the change.
Found 68 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes, and 28 seconds ago
tech.slashdot.org
Clay Shirky has been giving talks on his book Here Comes Everybody - his "masterpiece," per Cory Doctorow - and BoingBoing picks up one of them , from the Web 2.0 conference. Shirky has come up with a quantification of the attention that TV has been absorbing for more than half a century. Shirky defines as a unit of attention "the Wikipedia": 100 million person-hours of thought. As a society we have been burning 2,000 Wikipedias per year watching mostly sitcoms. We're stopping now. Here's a video of another information-dense Shirky talk , this one at Harvard.
Found 68 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
discardedlies.com
Gin is to the Industrial Revolution as TV is to modern times
Found 312 days, 8 hours, 44 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
broadstuff.com
Objections are emerging to Google's Street View, a service that matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the photograph was taken. The BBC notes that :
Found 428 days, 13 hours, 3 minutes, and 1 second ago
thefireofgenius.com
Here is Clay Shirky's talk at Web 2.0 (Apr 23, 2008), called Gin, Television, and Social Surplus .
My favorite bit: "The way you explore complex ecosystems is you just try lots and lots and lots of things, and you hope that everybody who fails fails informatively so that you can at least find a skull on a pikestaff near where you're going. That's the phase we're in now."
Read it. Seriously.
Found 68 days, 8 hours, 15 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
andrlik.org
This is a really interesting piece looking at Social Media and comparing it to the industrial revolution. The point being that during the industrial revolution, one of the most important things was gin, because before people started organizing public works they just got drunk as a way of coping with the sudden changes. The author then observes that in the 20th century we also had a similar coping mechanism to cultural change: the sitcom.
He then observes that similar to how people eventually organized and became involved in the new cultures of the industrial revolution, forming institutions like libraries and museums, and how social media is a beginning of that as culture begins to move from passive consumption to active participation.
Found 68 days, 8 hours, 14 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
cyanbane.com
Excellent Excellent Read. What do you do with your surplus? Explaining or Watching MILF Island ?
Gin, Television & Social Surplus by Clay Shirky
Found 68 days, 8 hours, 14 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
boingboing.hexten.net
In March 2007, a free speech and free assembly rally was held in Union Square to protest a new NYPD rule of dubious constitutionality instituting a permit requirement for any assembly of 50+ people on foot or on bike in NYC.
While the restriction would apply to any assembly of 50 or more people, it was enacted as transparent attempt shut down, harass or frustrate the Critical Mass bicycle rides that have occured monthly in Manhattan for at least ten years.
After the rally proper, a Critical Mass ride (accompanied by citizen videographers from the Glass Bead Collective and other groups) set out north from Union Square, only to be subjected to outrageous and illegal treatment by NYPD officers in Times Square under the supervision and instigation of Sgt.
Found 68 days, 8 hours, 14 minutes, and 13 seconds ago
isegoria.net
Clay Shirky ( Here Comes Everybody ) looks at Gin, Television, and Social Surplus : I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.
Found 68 days, 8 hours, 14 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
goodreads.ca
http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
Found 68 days, 8 hours, 14 minutes, and 1 second ago
ptarmigannest.net
I don't repost from Boing Boing , assuming most of you follow it, but this entry is straight from my heart. Clay Shirky should be invited to TED if you ask me.
For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before-free time.
And what did we do with that free time? Well, mostly we spent it watching TV.
We did that for decades. We watched I Love Lucy. We watched Gilligan's Island. We watch Malcolm in the Middle.
Found 68 days, 8 hours, 13 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
tjic.com
http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/0…
if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project-every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in-that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought.
Found 68 days, 6 hours, 51 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
brianalvey.com
I am speeding along on a train somewhere in New Jersey. In minutes I will be in Philadelphia for this week's Crowd Fusion codejam. Probably on TechMeme I came across a link to an article by Clay Shirky called Gin, Television, and Social Surplus . Intrigued by the title, I loaded it and 20 other articles into Firefox tabs. Many of those loaded articles will never get read, but I am glad I read Clay's from start to finish.
It's clever.
If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom.
Found 68 days, 6 hours, 51 minutes, and 15 seconds ago
kleinschmidt.wordpress.com
Lots of info-pr0n-related goodies on the web-o-sphere today. The first is the great (is sporadically applied) new feature on WordPress.com which puts a little list of links to "possibly related posts" at the bottom of (eventually) every post on a WordPress.com blog. The second is a nice little info-harvesting feature on Facebook called Lexicon that will wade through the semantic muck of wall posts and other Facebook-ed ramblings and show you a pretty graph of how often the words or phrases you ask it about appear over time.
Found 68 days, 4 hours, and 11 seconds ago
lastpodcast.net
Clay Sharky's (how is that for a great name!) article/talk on Cognitive Surplus and Web 2.0 is definitely a very good read , but it also made me think about the following paragraphs:
This is something that people in the media world don't understand. Media in the 20th century was run as a single race-consumption. How much can we produce? How much can you consume? Can we produce more and you'll consume more? And the answer to that question has generally been yes. But media is actually a triathlon, it's three different events.
Found 68 days, 4 hours, and 4 seconds ago
mentalfloss.com
For the Brain, Cash Is Good, Status Is Better. Which may explain why some people run their finances into the ground to keep up appearances.
Found 68 days, 2 hours, 32 minutes, and 46 seconds ago
thememesofproduction.org
Clay Shirkey's talk, Gin, Television, and Social Surplus from the 2008 Web 2.0 conference is being linked to from basically everywhere right now -- so I'd be remiss in not sharing it too.
This is something that people in the media world don't understand. Media in the 20th century was run as a single race--consumption. How much can we produce? How much can you consume? Can we produce more and you'll consume more? And the answer to that question has generally been yes. But media is actually a triathlon, it 's three different events.
Found 68 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
blog.sesse.net
I don't often post links to other people's blogs, but this one was definitely worth a full read: Looking for the mouse .
And no, I'm not into folksonomies and web 2.0 and all that. No, really.
Found 68 days, 47 minutes, and 8 seconds ago
jurgen.ca
Did you ever see that episode of Gilligan's Island where they almost get off the island and then Gilligan messes up and then they don't? I saw that one. I saw that one a lot when I was growing up. And every half-hour that I watched that was a half an hour I wasn't posting at my blog or editing Wikipedia or contributing to a mailing list. Now I had an ironclad excuse for not doing those things, which is none of those things existed then. I was forced into the channel of media the way it was because it was the only option.
Found 67 days, 23 hours, 2 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
civpro.blogs.com
I spend a lot of time with college students, too, and they too remind me to live in this world, the one right here and now, full of its fascinations and mysteries. In small ways college students make me feel wise, because I've already learned some of the things about the grown up world, people and relationships and identity, that they're busy discovering. But when I think like that I am being foolish. Like all of my other friends, they have more to teach me than I have to teach them. I spend car rides asking them all the questions they'll put up with, about how they see the world, about what is true for them.
Found 67 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes, and 8 seconds ago
mangans.blogspot.com
Clay Shirky writes about a phenomenon that heretofore has been unnamed (at least I've not been aware of it), but which once pointed out seems instinctively true: "social surplus". The idea contains connotations of leisure time, but with the added thought that all this time can be
Found 67 days, 18 hours, 32 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
zidouta.com
Web 2.0 Expo 2008: Clay Shirky ( blip.tv ) - 'A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken.'
Clay Shirky, Gin, Television, and Social Surplus :
"I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she's going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever.
Found 67 days, 17 hours, 55 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
cms-news.org
Identi.ca Action Stream Plugin
Found 429 days, 12 hours, 47 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
bibsonomy.org
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
Found 67 days, 16 hours, 39 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
warmroom.com
Via Jason Sutter who lives in New Zealand but shows up in my feed of blogs local to my zip code.
Update - 28 April 2008 Here (via Gruber ) is a link to the text of the talk. Also, the quoted rule of thumb is corrected.
Found 67 days, 16 hours, 39 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
rwww.techdirt.com
A literary agent named Barbara Bauer has sued Wikipedia for defamation after someone put a page up on Wikipedia that was quite negative about her -- with statements saying that she was the "dumbest of the twenty worst" agents, who has "no documented sales at all." There's no denying that the page on her was quite questionable, but that's also why Wikipedians quickly deleted it. While it was brought back a few times, each time, it was quickly deleted as being a rather obvious "attack page." As one Wikipedian wrote, the page was a bloody disgrace .
Found 67 days, 14 hours, 25 minutes, and 15 seconds ago
azspot.net
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus ☀
Found 69 days, 16 hours, 15 minutes, and 8 seconds ago
jacquelinezenn.wordpress.com
From Paul Gillin's blog - How New Influencers are revinventing journalism :
"With no formal journalism training, no editorial oversight and none of the trappings of conventional media, Ben Popken is becoming one of the most powerful voices in consumer journalism. And what's funny is that if you ask him about the secret of Consumerist's success, he uses the same words that any good editor uses: "The secret is to be reader-centric in a fundamental way. The content is driven by the readers and reacted to by the readers.
Found 69 days, 10 hours, 32 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
problemattic.net
alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads. This is a pretty big surplus. People asking, "Where do they find the time?" when they're looking at things like Wikipedia don't understand how tiny that entire project is, as a carve-out of this asset that's finally being dragged into what Tim calls an architecture of participation.
Found 69 days, 9 hours, 58 minutes, and 18 seconds ago
udgewink.blogspot.com
A brilliant article
Found 56 days, 3 hours, 32 minutes, and 31 seconds ago