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Getting Shirky on camera

October 1st, 2008 · Comments

Excuse the bad pun, but friend and colleague Dave Cushman has started posting a series of videos from an interview with Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody).
Well worth watching.

And if you need another reason, Clay’s still holding the number 2 spot on the infamous ‘Rock Stars of Web 2.0‘ list on Ditto.net.

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Is Clay Shirky the biggest celebrity of Web 2.0?

August 18th, 2008 · Comments

Because ‘The Rock Stars of Web 2.0‘ list on Ditto.net certainly seems to think so! (Disclaimer – I work for Bauer Media, who created Ditto, and help with some marketing…)
At the moment, Clay Shirky tops the list, followed by Doc Searls, Stowe Boyd and Wayne Sutton. The top female web 2.0 celebrity on the list [...]

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Tolstoy vs Twitter?

July 22nd, 2008 · Comments

Rather than repeating myself, I’m linking to the comments I’ve made on the Britannica Blog, responding to a post by Larry Sanger.
The essay itself came out of posts between Nick Carr and Clay Shirky. At which point I appear in the comments. There’s an element of crossed wires and confusion, as there often is in [...]

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