Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration

an all time TED classic!

Isnt that longtail on iraq photos?

I had to stop viewing after 3 mins due to his awfully loud nose breathing sounds. My problem, I know.

its his microphone... too much audio compression, so no matter how low the level... it gets sucked in and amplified.

I think this foreshadowed the election of Obama, someone who gets the power of collaborative infrastructure systems

Collaboration was what happened with Ron Paul breaking the single day fund raising records twice. The idea, organizing, work and then donations was done by individuals with nothing happening from the central Ron Paul campaign.

Obama was and is heavily institutionalize, top down. Obama is very command and control oriented. Some people might work for free but all their actions are passed down from a central authority.

this guy looks like tom hanks but bold

interesting shit.

(3) very specific objectives -- for example -- an economic boycott of Disney-produced entertainment due to that conglomerate's development & ballsy promotion of the phony docudrama "Path to 9/11" which aired despite little pockets of resistance at places like DailyKos & AmericaBlog.

Separate from that discussion, my interests have shifted away from electoral politics, toward what I loosely call "Para-government" -- bypassing official govt completely, focusing on influencing citizens directly.