here comes everybody...
"The hallmark of revolution is that the goals of the revolutionaries cannot be contained by the institutional structure of the existing society."
Thus spake Clay Shirky in his new book, Here Comes Everybody.
If you want to blow your mind with the possibilities of the new media, be that mobile phones, the internet, blogs, wikis, YouTube, Facebook, etc, this book will do it.
I'm reading it, and my already blown mind is just blowing again...
Wow...
But don't worry, dear reader, my optimism is bound to be short-lived. Reality will bite me again soon enough...
Thus spake Clay Shirky in his new book, Here Comes Everybody.
If you want to blow your mind with the possibilities of the new media, be that mobile phones, the internet, blogs, wikis, YouTube, Facebook, etc, this book will do it.
I'm reading it, and my already blown mind is just blowing again...
Wow...
But don't worry, dear reader, my optimism is bound to be short-lived. Reality will bite me again soon enough...
posted by The Editor at
12:31 AM
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That being said, I still can't get my brain around why I should reply to all those emails which turn up tell me that so-and-so has listed me as their friend, seeking confirmation.
I guess I'm a dinosaur after all...
in order to get a piece of somebodies mind, it is sometimes necessary to blow it.
The older i get, Gerry, the more that i realise that everything that needs to said has already been said. The only reason that i keep waffling on is that (a) i need to, and (b) as generations change, so much is forgotten. Is there anything important amid the recent Babel-tower of blogs and beep-beep phones, facebook and facetious dinner parties?
The philosopher's stone has been turned and tumbled through the endless stream of time and thought until it is but a plain and polished, politically correct sphere with no distinguishing flaws. Perhaps, every now and then, it needs a hammer to crack it open, to see what's inside.
I wait with baited breath to see where all this techno-inter-connectedness will take us.
Probably no further than the village pump .. or, might i suggest, the local church - which used to be where all the local gossip happened .. wry grin.
...and where they used to dole out the ministrone soup to the starving massess...
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