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Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration

http://www.ted.com In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation repl...  
 
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simonbour (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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an all time TED classic!
ajsa25 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Isnt that longtail on iraq photos?
hoplahey (5 months ago) Show Hide
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I had to stop viewing after 3 mins due to his awfully loud nose breathing sounds. My problem, I know.
blacksummersound (4 months ago) Show Hide
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its his microphone... too much audio compression, so no matter how low the level... it gets sucked in and amplified.
jclail (6 months ago) Show Hide
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I think this foreshadowed the election of Obama, someone who gets the power of collaborative infrastructure systems
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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.
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simonbour (11 months ago) Show Hide
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this guy looks like tom hanks but bold
Angloth (1 year ago) Show Hide
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interesting shit.
quicksite (1 year ago) Show Hide
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(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.

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