11 Articles match "2008","Clay Shirky"

• The Best from Informal Learning Flow

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• Clay Shirky in London: Group action just got easier
  
  One reason I like it is that you can suggest that you'd like to hear someone like, say, Clay Shirky and, six months later, you've got him. Clay speaks today at Online Information Conference in London. As well as formal groups around certain types of photography on Flickr ( like this HDR group for beginners ) there are the more impromptu adhoc communities that form around just one photo . 10 years ago, as Clay helped newspapers People sometimes ask why one might 'waste' one's time sitting on Advisory Boards, especially those of conferences. It means that whereas
  edublogs - Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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• Feature Interview with Clay Shirky on Canadian Radio (CBC)
  
  I recently finished reading Clay Shirky’s new book (New York: Penguin, 2008) entitled Here Comes Everybody: the power of organizing without organizations . If you have been following the shift from presentation mode to participation mode in education and training, then you won’t find many startling ideas in this book, as Shirky covers topics already well discussed by other writers and bloggers. The ideas include the importance of sharing to build community, the fact that we all can be contributors to the information explosion, the increasing speed of change, challenges to established institutions, social media, small worlds, and that failure is a good thing in terms of learning.
  Workplace Learning Today - Friday, January 2, 2009
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• Idea nodes & innovation
  
  Ogle’s concept of nodes as idea spaces are a piece in the puzzle being decoded by Rob Cross, Ross Dawson, Valdis Krebs, Duncan Watts, John Hagel, John Seely Brown, Verna Allee, Kevin Kelly, Clay Shirky, Albert Laszlo-Barabasi, George Siemens, David Weinberger, Ross Mayfield, and others. I am a wanderer, enthusiastically trudging wherever my curiosity leads me. In Australia last month, a client gave me a copy of Smart World , Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas by Richard Ogle.
  Internet Time - Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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• Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 2008
  
  here is a link to a transcript of the tal
  e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Monday, May 12, 2008
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• Calling Stephen Potter…
  
  Cued no doubt by the mysterious invisible hand of cyberspace, I received an email this evening from Brittanica pointing to an online debate among Nick Carr, Kevin Kelly, Clay Shirky, Sven Birkerts, and other worthies that ties back to both the post with Camus and my earlier rant about Carr’s stoopid arguments . Catch this action: Research + Web = More Consensus, Less Diversity (At Least, So Far) | Britannica Blog
  Internet Time - Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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• Business of Learning
  
  billion in ad revenue compared year-over-year.” Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable by Clay Shirky "...the I'm not quite sure how the market can be treating them as well as they are. However, I would be a bit worried about these stocks when I think about what has happened in No Bull: 2008 — The Year Newspaper Stocks Collapsed : The statistics behind the collapse of newspaper stocks in 2008 are sobering as New Year’s Eve approaches: GateHouse, down 99.55% in this calendar year McClatchy, down 93.6% Lee Enterprises, down 97.3%
  eLearning Technology - Monday, June 15, 2009
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• Meetup’s Dead Simple User Testing
  
  In this Boing Boing article, Clay Shirky describes how the folks at Meetup test their website . "On I totally subscribe to simple usability testing and setups. On my way out after a meeting, Scott pulled me into a room by the elevators, where a couple of product people were watching a live webcam feed of someone using Meetup. Said user was having a hard time figuring out a new feature, and the product
  elearningpost - Saturday, December 13, 2008
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• Signposts for the Week Ending June 5
  
  Clay Shirky on social media and the emotional dimension of news . UX Week 2008 speaker Johnny Lee has been working on the compelling Project Natal hands-free controller for Xbox. If you need to explain venn diagrams, or sporks . McDonald’s figures out how to integrate web memes into their business.
  Adaptive Path - Friday, June 5, 2009
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• Media and news
  
  By 2008, the industry had finally begun to get serious. Clay Shirky offers his views : “Revolutions create a curious inversion of perception. If journalism is important, but newspapers aren’t, why aren’t these so-called new journalists critiquing Shirky’s article? At best, it’s being referenced by people who Newspapers are the current topic of interest on many blogs/news sites. Seattle PI announces it will stop publishing a paper-version , to focus on online resources (which it states will be more than only an online newspaper but will
  elearnspace - Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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• Nova Spivack's Twine is Red-Hot
  
  Twine's unique visitors have grown more than 40% each month since its October 2008 debut, topping 80% in February 2009 -- more than 1 million uniques. Today, the Internet caters to humans, not machines; accordingly, Web expert Clay Shirky says, "it's a mess." Nova Spivack's red-hot site, Twine, uses artificial intelligence to find and store Web info. Google a common query, such as "movie tickets," and you'll get 55 million hits.
  Fast Company - Monday, June 1, 2009
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