Clay Shirky 'Cognitive Surplus' Speech Web2.0 Conference

Don't know how to put this in context but Clay Shirky, professor at NYU's interactive telecommunications program, has written this insightful book called Here comes Everybody. Shirky goal 'is to describe the intersection of social tools and social life, helping people to understand both what's happening around them and how tools could be designed that better support social activity' but just watch the web video of his 'Cognitive Surplus' speech at Web 2.0 conference where he compares television viewing attention hours with wikipedias. Twice in the last couple of weeks I have had people say to me, 'Where do you find the time to do all this?' I tell them that I don't watch TV and if I do have it on it's usually live TV and on in the background. UPDATE - Good post from Neil McIntosh here

Comments

[Madalin Matica]

Great speech. Thank you for making me watch it. Some ideas actually arise into my mind. Probably because of some cognitive surplus I do have :)

[giles rhys jones]

yeah nice - transcript here http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
hope all well. g

[Cindy]

This is fabulous! Thanks for insisting that I watch.