Here Comes Everybody!
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

As the web continues to offer up free tools for publishing (Wordpress), blogging (Blogger), SMS (Twitter) and video (You Tube) the opportunities to publish content and build your own audience have never been greater. One person who is well worth listening to on the phenomenon of the new media is Clay Shirky. Clay is the Professor at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Programme, teaches and consults on the social and economic effects of the internet and is the author of ‘Here Comes Everybody – The Power of Organising without Organisations‘. My two favourite quotations of his are: “We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love” and ” “Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.” If you haven’t time to read the book, here’s the video!