In this article by Clay Shirky, Shirky advances the argument that participatory media technologies are allowing us to harness the cognitive surplus we’ve been wasting all of these years on TV. His new book, “Here Comes Everybody” is a longer version of this argument. He estimates that wikipedia represents about 100 Million man hours of [...]
Going back to an earlier post where I talked about Everything being Miscellaneous: What I like about participatory culture is that you just try things and see if they stick. You start a blog, maybe you only post four times and then never look at it again. Maybe you find you like [...]
I’ve recently discovered Grant and his blog www.cultureby.com. I would be lying if I didn’t admit he is a model of academia and consulting that I am trying to achieve in my own life. The following quote by McCracken, taken from an article by Henry Jenkins in the book “Engaging Art”, pretty much sums [...]
Young people today are frequently criticized as being illiterate because they can’t sit still long enough to read or write a 40 page paper. Yet this simplistic observation doesn’t hold up upon closer examination. Web browsing, email, chat, text messages, and many video games all depend on text. We are reading and [...]
I recently had a major epiphany while attending the MIT hosted event, ROFLcon. A few months back, I read David Weinberger’s book “Everything is Miscellaneous”. And while I understood the idea, it was only while at ROFLcon that I understood it in my heart. I’ve always been reluctant to put anything of myself online. Chalk [...]
