#6 – Accounting for successful platforms

Shirky’s model of promise, tool, and bargain apply in the same way to social tools not discussed in “Here Comes Everybody”. For example, Twitter, Facebook, Craig’s List, and Lastfm all give a very simple promise; they want the user to share their stories, likes, news, etc to their friends and online peers. They are also [...]

#5 – Communication, collaboration, filtering & failure

Wow this week’s practicum was challenging.. so much stuff already up there and I didn’t really think I had anything new to contribute..
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Shirky discussed in this recent reading of the new media production and how it affects us socially in communications, collaborations, and how we live our lives. He went back to some examples we [...]

#4 Clay Shirky – Sharing, Community, Remix

This is a little late, yesterday was my birthday!! (woo hoo I’m 21 haha)
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As I read this week’s reading in Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, I found the text to be a lot more comprehendable than Wikinomics in the way that Here Comes Everybody focuses on the action and reaction, and on the positive and [...]