This link has been bookmarked by 5 people . It was first bookmarked on 14 Apr 2008, by Thomas Ho.
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19 May 08
John David SmithA very useful book. An example of tagging a printed piece.
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30 Apr 08
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
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A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill
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A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each other online and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite design in decades.
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Activists use the Internet and e-mail to bring offensive comments made by Trent Lott and Don Imus to a wide public and hound them from their positions
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. Hierarchical structures that exist to manage the work of groups are seeing their raisons d'ÂÂtre swiftly eroded by the rising technological tide. Business models are being destroyed, transformed, born at dizzying speeds, and the larger social impact is profound.
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Shirky's assessment of the impact of new technology on the nature and use of groups is marvelously broad minded, lucid, and penetrating; it integrates the views of a number of other thinkers across a broad range of disciplines with his own pioneering work to provide a holistic framework for understanding the opportunities and the threats to the existing order that these new, spontaneous networks of social interaction represent.
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Wikinomics, yes, but also wikigovernment, wikiculture, wikievery imaginable interest group, including the far from savory. A revolution in social organization has commenced, and Clay Shirky is its brilliant chronicler.
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14 Apr 08
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