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Clay Shirky on It's Not Information Overload, It's Filter Failure
Clay Shirky is the kind of guy you would like to sit in a bar with discussing Internet developments over a few pints of Guinness because you will come away with new ideas and a fresh perspective on the evolution...

Clay Shirky Talks About Everybody
Clay Shirky, who writes on the effects of the internet and technology on society, recently published Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. If you’d like to get a sense of what he has to say on the subject of groups, you should take a look at a [40-minute] video of his [...

Shirky on Filters Over Information Overload
Joe Hodnicki over at the Law Librarian Blog shared this Clay Shirky presentation last week. The title of the talk was “It’s Not Information Overload, It’s Filter Failure“...

Sharing, Part of the Power of Everybody
Clay Shirky gave a talk at the Berkman Center covering some of the ideas from his new book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. The video is online from Harvard under a Creative Commons license...

PdF essay contest
Personal Democracy Forum (June 23-24, NYC) is a key annual meeting in this country. You must go. This year the theme is “Rebooting America,” and PdF has been soliciting essays from people like Clay Shirky, Yochai Benkler, Beth Noveck, Craig Newmark, danah boyd, Scott Heiferman, Tara Hunt, Josh Marshall, Howard Rheingold, Brad Templeton, Mike Turk, [...

sometimes a number hits you like a baseball bat to the head
Televisions from days gone by by Neil Anderson. License: Clay Shirky on how small wikipedia is, relative to the way we’ve spent our culture’s free time for the past fifty years: So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project–every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of [...

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...

Mars Petfood
79 People Sick So Far

Salmonella Outbreak
50 People Sick in Five States

Sudan Plane Crash
100 People Believed Dead

Chemical Companies
alleging danger to people living near the plants.