GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS
A Talk by Clay Shirky (
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And this is the other thing about the size of the cognitive surplus we’re talking about
Social software
Stuart Glendinning Hall
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Category Archives: Social software
Edge article: Clay Shirkey on Gin, Television & Cognitive Surplus
Building online communities
After the 90-9-1 ratio, another one for building online communities. Within any 30-day period, 10 percent of people who see an invitation will come, and 10 percent of those will post. Visibility is key.
Buzz is open to all
Thanks to Techcrunch:
Buzz, Yahoo’s Digg-like effort to leverage reader gestures and third party content in determining the most popular news, removes it’s barriers to entry tonight.
Until now only a hundred or so invited publishers could post news to Buzz. This was a big plug - Yahoo pushes a few Yahoo Buzz stories to their home [...]
Are employers bleeding social capital?
Piece in the FT on 15 August which follows on from recent case, highlighting trends on employer vs employee social capital:
Do I ‘own’ social networking contacts?
I run a national retail business employing over 100 sales representatives who are encouraged to use social networking sites, such as LinkedIn, to market the business and build contacts. I’m [...]
Updated blogging software is a nod to the convergence of blogging and social networks
Movable Type Pro launched today combines blogs with social networking, not unlike the WordFrame platform used for IT Counts: “The type of Web site that you build with Movable Type doesn’t have to look like a classic two- or three-column blog,” said Chris Alden, Six Apart’s CEO.
“It can be structured to look like any Web [...]
More slander than libel in online setting?
On Saturday I posted a piece on slander and libel in online networks, thanks to a piece from Matt at FreshNetworks, which followed a recent court case where defamation on a bulletin board was decreed to be slander rather than libel due to its conversational nature. Talking about it today with my IT colleague Paul [...]
More slander than libel in online setting
“Defamation on internet bulletin boards is more like slander than libel, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Eady said that bulletin board discussions are characterised by “give and take” and should be considered in that context.” Report on 7 August, in Out-law.com.
Thanks to post from Matt Rhodes, of the FreshNetworks Blog, which flagged [...]
Video on how to use Twitter
How Do You Use Twitter? from biz stone on Vimeo.
Delicious 2.0
This from Techcrunch:
“YAY! The long awaited, much promised, never delivered Delicious 2.0 will launch in the next few minutes, just like they promised again last week.
“The new Delicious is just like the old Delicious, except for the way it looks. They’re also promising that it will be “faster, easier to learn,” and “hopefully more [...]
BigWhiteWall launchs new young people’s section with MTV
“BigWhiteWall is just three months old and was started as a new kind of advice and support network for the web. Monitored by trained advisors who look after users 24/7, offering help but also encouraging healthy expression and discussion with other users. “It is funded, so far, by selling a house and taking a [...]