Like a lot of other folks, I’m really excited and inspired by Clay Shirky’s Web 2.0 Expo talk (video here). As usual for Clay, it’s engaging, informed, informative and has you thinking “what if” just moments in. And as usual, it’s full of great quotes like:
Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.
Gold. And he does it every time he speaks.
I still chuckle every time I recall his talk at Supernova 2007 on changing the dynamics of business and his great line when discussing open source support with AT&T:
It was if we said we get our Thursdays from a banana.
If you’re still watching hours of television each week rather than engaging in participatory culture, I’d suggest you’re wasting valuable time. As Clay mentions in the talk, without a mouse, the screen really is broken - it would seem that “from the mouths of babes” is really very true. That’s not to say a few hours a week in front of the TV just vegging out doesn’t have value, but you should definitely be out there doing something, engaging in something and adding value to something. It doesn’t matter what it is.
My local online compadres, Laurel Papworth and Nic Hodges have also commented on the talk.
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