Clay Shirky, most lucid thinker on social effects of communication tools, launches new book and thought provoking blog, Here Comes Everybody, about what happens when people have the tools to do things together without needing traditional organizational structures.
Epiphany has little to do with either creativity or innovation. Instead, innovation is a slow process of accretion, building small insight upon interesting fact upon tried-and-true process. Just as an oyster wraps layer upon layer of nacre atop an offendi
It’s easy to deride “user-generated content” as the nadir of publishing — why would anyone put such drivel out in public?
It’s simple. They’re not talking to us.
We misinterpret because we’re unused to seeing material in public that isn’t for the public.
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