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 replaces rigid planning.
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I think this …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmI think this foreshadowed the election of Obama, someone who gets the power of collaborative infrastructure systems
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this guy looks like …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmthis guy looks like tom hanks but bold
interesting .
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pminteresting .
(3) very specific …
(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.
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pm(2) … Many …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pm(2) … Many experiments in collaboration have failed, or were severely compromised, because no one wants their “brand” tucked up under some coordinating body, no matter how temporary or for what purpose. thus, i’ve evolved my own practical models for citizen coordination that crosses organizational boundaries. the web enables this fluidity… so people can still participate in their orgs, & they can also participate in individual or multi-entity driven cross-organizational projects focused on
Since the Dean …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmSince the Dean campaign, I’ve worked in a variety of group configurations. Form an entity, network, collective, ociation, coalition. The truest thing I have determined after 20 years of progressive activism: Collaboration is often foiled because any form of coordination is feared as somehow a threat to the autonomy of one org vs another. Funding turf wars also lead to absurd non-coordination. MoveOn won’t work with DFA, and DFA won’t work w/ MoveOn. Recipes for serial-failures.
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this …
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this could be a political model for the next generation))
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You can bet on it. )
Why in world was that marked as spam? perhaps accidental.
I was very active in the Dean campaign. 4 years later, though Obama campaign has extracted the very best practices & improved upon them, STILL, the bulk of online political interaction is typing text on a screen, no different than back in 1980’s when L.A. had BBS systems linked to internet, pre-web.
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmto me the ratios …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmto me the ratios show that laziness/inability are at the heart of the human condition. inability is situational while lethargy can spring from deafeat/lack of motivation. this is the key problem in socialism: motivation and ability. some feel that socialism takes away and gives to all, whne the truth is if you put in you should receive. it’s giftgiving! money has to be out of the equation. i hate money myself but that’s situational. motivation and ability are so much more pure. my best wishes!!
you should watch a …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmyou should watch a few other vids on this type of thing: Kevin Kelly and Boahen. also check out greentech/John Doerr. let me know how it goes!
i’ve been thinking …
through mutually beneficial cooperation. i see a bright future in 50 years.. or mass chaos
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmi’ve been thinking this for years. true socialism
So.. Tagging makes …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmSo.. Tagging makes stuff easier to find.. Good talk that -_-’
we are all psycho …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmwe are all psycho milt
damb spammers.
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmdamb spammers.
Always satisfying.
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmAlways satisfying.
We’re supposed to …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmWe’re supposed to be getting good at being aware of situations and solving problems in groups. Institutions do it because they get paid money to do it. People do it on their own because they get paid with attention, knowledge or fun while potentially solving hard problems that institutions ignore.
Growing a network …
Growing a network is always good, because multiplies the brain power on any topic–being in the network helps you get the questions out to the experts and from there, the answers and ideas just begin to flow.
They just didn’t know how powerful the Internet was going to make humanity when they invented it, they were just trying to make a system that would survive a nuclear war.
We only have to reach out and grab the WIN.
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmYou can bet on it.
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmYou can bet on it.
this could be a …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmthis could be a political model for the next generation
Thanks to …
Thanks to compelled2283 for sharing.
I wish I could sum up my feelings on this to a paragraph, but I can’t.
I think this collaborative sharing phenomenon is wonderful. But, I also think it is “the revealing”, long foretold… Many will see, few will understand. All of Humanity is a single organism. If we fail to recognize this, individually, we shall perish.
Just my two cents worth…
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmFascinating (the …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmFascinating (the vid)!
IM PSYCHO MILT
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmIM PSYCHO MILT
just applying the …
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmjust applying the pareto principle.
screw socialists!!
Comment made on June 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmscrew socialists!!
You take the time …
You take the time to translate it and that’s really nice of you. I was just saying you shouldn’t expect truckloads of spontaneous help with that part.
To be honest, if someone were to read every license agreement of everything they use, (or even just software) it would probably take a year out of their life if not more.
It isn’t just a question of laziness or translation, sometimes the time is worth more than the risk.
I’m curious. Can you message me an URL?
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