I've just added a new post to /Message - the full 35minute version of the Clay Shirky interview regular visitors to this site will have seen sliced up over the past week or so.
On /Message you can get the whole thing in one hit AND download it all for playback on your pc/iPod etc.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
The User is the Destination Now
I was lucky enough to present at Widget Web Expo in London earlier this week (which ran on October 6-7).
It gave me an opportunity to speak about the eighth mass media for the first time. The title of my talk was The User Is The Destination Now: Widgets' Role in the Eighth Mass Media.
In the usual manner, I've made the slidedeck available via slideshare. And I was also recorded on a Flip Mino, so you can see and hear me talk about the topics on the slides, while you view them.
Some credit where due: The eighth mass media builds on Tomi Ahonen and Alan Moore's concept of mobile as the seventh mass media. Find their work at Communities Dominate Brands. It's an idea in prototype and one I've been working on with Jonathan Macdonald.
The notion of widgets as great enablers of emulation is inspired by the ideas of Mark Earls' Herd (and particularly the Homo Mimicus reference).
The video is hosted by google, which means (unlike youtube) you can download it AND it can be more than 100mb and 10 mins (it's actually about 35 mins and 120+mb).
It's all below. Hope you'll enjoy.
It's messy at the edges - so do pick up the tools and join in.
By the way, I'm in Amsterdam today. Drop me a tweet if you are too.
It gave me an opportunity to speak about the eighth mass media for the first time. The title of my talk was The User Is The Destination Now: Widgets' Role in the Eighth Mass Media.
In the usual manner, I've made the slidedeck available via slideshare. And I was also recorded on a Flip Mino, so you can see and hear me talk about the topics on the slides, while you view them.
Some credit where due: The eighth mass media builds on Tomi Ahonen and Alan Moore's concept of mobile as the seventh mass media. Find their work at Communities Dominate Brands. It's an idea in prototype and one I've been working on with Jonathan Macdonald.
The notion of widgets as great enablers of emulation is inspired by the ideas of Mark Earls' Herd (and particularly the Homo Mimicus reference).
The video is hosted by google, which means (unlike youtube) you can download it AND it can be more than 100mb and 10 mins (it's actually about 35 mins and 120+mb).
It's all below. Hope you'll enjoy.
It's messy at the edges - so do pick up the tools and join in.
By the way, I'm in Amsterdam today. Drop me a tweet if you are too.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Gin, TV... and What Comes Next?
The seventh and final part of my interview with Here Comes Everybody author Clay Shirky appears below today.
Previous six parts are available on the blog already titled:
1. How algorithms caused the credit crunch
2. Why email stuffs Facebook et al
3. Humanising brands
4. Scoring collaboration in education
5. Is technology changing us
6. Why Here Comes Everybody avoids the copyright debate
In this seventh part Clay discusses his famous ideas about Gin, TV and cognitive surplus.
And we consider what comes next: a world of participatory media. The question remains - is this just the next heat sink (ie something we commit more and more time to as a way of coping with the huge societal shifts that mass collaboration (the power of the network) will bring?
Clay believes we are entering a period of massive experimentation to discover what kind of amateur work and global collaboration will work. Expect to make plenty of mistakes along the way.
And from this the new organisational rules of a group-forming world will emerge.
Watch the video below. If you want to see Clay live and in person, he's back in the UK in December.
I will be adding a full, unedited and higher-quality version (joining the seven parts together) soon on /Message. It'll be on google video.
I'm headed for Amsterdam today for an interesting co-creation project. If you're there this evening, look me up on twitter?
Previous six parts are available on the blog already titled:
1. How algorithms caused the credit crunch
2. Why email stuffs Facebook et al
3. Humanising brands
4. Scoring collaboration in education
5. Is technology changing us
6. Why Here Comes Everybody avoids the copyright debate
In this seventh part Clay discusses his famous ideas about Gin, TV and cognitive surplus.
And we consider what comes next: a world of participatory media. The question remains - is this just the next heat sink (ie something we commit more and more time to as a way of coping with the huge societal shifts that mass collaboration (the power of the network) will bring?
Clay believes we are entering a period of massive experimentation to discover what kind of amateur work and global collaboration will work. Expect to make plenty of mistakes along the way.
And from this the new organisational rules of a group-forming world will emerge.
Watch the video below. If you want to see Clay live and in person, he's back in the UK in December.
I will be adding a full, unedited and higher-quality version (joining the seven parts together) soon on /Message. It'll be on google video.
I'm headed for Amsterdam today for an interesting co-creation project. If you're there this evening, look me up on twitter?
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Music 2.0: The quick hit mix
Regular FasterFuture visitor and contributor Jamie Burke has just had his Music2.0 slidedeck featured on the homepage of Slideshare.
It's a pretty cool fast-track through the shifting sands of music and its value chain.
Take a look below:
It's a pretty cool fast-track through the shifting sands of music and its value chain.
Take a look below:
Why Here Comes Everybody avoids the copyright debate
Part six of my interview with Clay Shirky has Clay defending himself against Felix Strader's criticism that Clay's book Here Comes Everybody fails to address the copyright/DRM issue.
Clay feels the battle is way less important than some might have it. It matters a lot to the broadcast media industry, but everyone else is quietly working around it with innovations like the creative commons.
Watch his answer below. See Clay speak live and in person here. Read his own words here.
Previous parts of this interview published so far on this blog
1. How algorithms caused the credit crunch
2. Why email stuffs Facebook et al
3. Humanising brands
4. Scoring collaboration in education
5. Is technology changing us
Clay feels the battle is way less important than some might have it. It matters a lot to the broadcast media industry, but everyone else is quietly working around it with innovations like the creative commons.
Watch his answer below. See Clay speak live and in person here. Read his own words here.
Previous parts of this interview published so far on this blog
1. How algorithms caused the credit crunch
2. Why email stuffs Facebook et al
3. Humanising brands
4. Scoring collaboration in education
5. Is technology changing us
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