Here Comes EverybodyA book about organizing without organizations. Buy the book. (March 2008, US and UK)Jay Rosen on Citizen Journalism and Obama's "bitter" comment- April 27, 2008 Jay Rosen, a founder of OffTheBus, has written a great piece on how Obama's "bitter" comments got picked up by a citizen journalist, Mayhill Fowler, a 61 year old Obama donor who was at the West Coast fundraiser and heard...http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/jay-rosen-on-citizen-journalis.html Comments broken- April 27, 2008 Comments are broken. Thanks to everyone who's mailed in, I'm looking for the problem, will add to this entry when they're fixed. Fixed! Sorry for the trouble....http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/comments-broken.html Gin, Television, and Social Surplus- April 26, 2008 (This is a lightly edited transcription of a speech I gave at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.) I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian...http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html Newspapers and the Net- April 7, 2008 Britannica Blog launched a series of posts today on Newspapers and the Net. The seed essay in this case is a passage from Nick Carr's The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google about how the economics of...http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/newspapers-and-the-net.html |