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    what an absolutely brilliant way of describing the fundamental difference between the passive (TV) and the active (blogging, wiki editing, etc) which I mentioned, in passing, here. The USA's TV time is ANNUALLY equivalent to 200 entire Wikipedias. I beg your pardon. 2,000!!He's quite... more

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  • Rated by hadaloo on Jul 23, 9:44am

    "Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for." Megaword. Articulating and illuminating all the problems I have with modern society.

  • Rated by harrystottle on Apr 22 2009, 2:22pm

    what an absolutely brilliant way of describing the fundamental difference between the passive (TV) and the active (blogging, wiki editing, etc) which I mentioned, in passing, here. The USA's TV time is ANNUALLY equivalent to 200 entire Wikipedias. I beg your pardon. 2,000!!He's quite right of course. This is the power we have to unleash in order to establish the first ever global democracy, in order to counter the power of the Authoritarians...

  • Rated by sallyjacobs on Jan 07 2009, 9:56am

    Clay Shirky reminds me that The Academy is not completely ossified, and that makes me happy.

  • Reviewed by JeeMz on Jan 05 2009, 11:40pm

    Interesting comparison of how much thinking time is needed to create a website the size of Wikipedia vs. how much time is spent watching television. The result are staggering!

  • Rated by Shoc on Sep 06 2008, 12:23am

    damn good read

  • Rated by cabradio on Aug 18 2008, 6:17pm

    Clay Shirky makes great points about social media, our cognitive surplus of time and how we use it.

  • Rated by Ythan on Jul 16 2008, 2:24pm

    An interesting and perceptive presentation.

  • Rated by AbleReach on May 13 2008, 8:29pm

    Thoughts about adding interactivity to "screen" time. - From the page: "Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won't have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan's Island, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing."