Clay Shirky —
Hey, hey… should be a good event tomorrow (May 29, 2008) at Champlain College (Burlington, VT)…
Fulfilling Vermont’s e-State Potential
Building Community in a “Connected Age”
Front Porch Forum will be among several community-building efforts featured. Lewis Feldstein from New Hampshire, who co-wrote Robert Putnam’s follow up to Bowling Alone, will provide the keynote.
Another fun angle… Cathy [...]
After witnessing boatloads of goodwill among neighbors through Front Porch Forum, I thought I had seen it all. Well… can you guess the response to this posting?
Hello - I am a UVM student about to spend my first summer in Burlington. All year long I’ve been dreaming of joining a CSA for the first time. [...]
I came across some “manhour” data today from a variety of sources. Got me thinking, so I laid it out in these graphs (each graph shows the estimated number of human-hours of labor required to complete each project)…
So how do we get more of those TV watching hours put to productive use? Plenty of [...]
Author and thinker Clay Shirky nails it today with a brilliant posting about… about…
Well, I’m having a hard time boiling it down to a sound bite. Here’s a sample, but I recommend reading the full piece…
I was being interviewed by a TV producer to see whether I should be on their show, and she [...]
I look forward to reading Clay Shirky’s new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Until then, this video of his lecture at Harvard’s Berkman Center provided me a thought-provoking overview.
The nut… the internet allows for “ridiculously easy group forming,” which improves…
Sharing
Conversation
Collaboration
Collective action
But this doesn’t do his ideas justice. I’m [...]