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February 28, 2008
My book. Let me Amazon show you it.
Posted by Clay Shirky
I’m delighted to say that online bookstores are shipping copies of Here Comes Everybody today, and that it has gotten several terrific notices in the blogosphere:
Cory Doctorow:
Clay’s book makes sense of the way that groups are using the Internet. Really good sense. In a treatise that spans all manner of social activity from vigilantism to terrorism, from Flickr to Howard Dean, from blogs to newspapers, Clay unpicks what has made some “social” Internet media into something utterly transformative, while other attempts have fizzled or fallen to griefers and vandals. Clay picks perfect anecdotes to vividly illustrate his points, then shows the larger truth behind them.
Russell Davies:
Here Comes Everybody goes beyond wild-eyed webby boosterism and points out what seems to be different about web-based communities and organisation and why it’s different; the good and the bad. With useful and interesting examples, good stories and sticky theories. Very good stuff.
Eric Nehrlich:
These newly possible activities are moving us towards the collapse of social structures created by technology limitations. Shirky compares this process to how the invention of the printing press impacted scribes. Suddenly, their expertise in reading and writing went from essential to meaningless. Shirky suggests that those associated with controlling the means to media production are headed for a similar fall.
Philip Young:
Shirky has a piercingly sharp eye for the spotting the illuminating case studies - some familiar, some new - and using them to energise wider themes. His basic thesis is simple: “Everywhere you look groups of people are coming together to share with one another, work together, take some kind of public action.” The difference is that today, unlike even ten years ago, technological change means such groups can be form and act in new and powerful ways. Drawing on a wide range of examples Shirky teases out remarkable contrasts with what has been the expected logic, and shows quite how quickly the dynamics of reputation and relationships have changed.
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1. Paul Holbrook on March 10, 2008 9:07 AM writes...
Will there be a Kindle version of your book?
Permalink to Comment2. Jess on May 28, 2008 2:23 PM writes...
grats on your bog, you deserve it!
Permalink to Comment3. simone on June 20, 2008 3:08 PM writes...
this is a nice site…i have some good news…nbc…has this new cool show called Baby Borrowers and I got a sneak peak of that show and I would recommend all the mom’s have their teens watch that show and I promise that they will not be getting pregnant anytime soon…!!!
Permalink to Comment4. simone on June 20, 2008 3:09 PM writes...
this is a nice site…i have some good news…nbc…has this new cool show called Baby Borrowers and I got a sneak peak of that show and I would recommend all the mom’s have their teens watch that show and I promise that they will not be getting pregnant anytime soon…!!!
Permalink to Comment5. ibmthisgerma on August 13, 2008 8:18 PM writes...
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Permalink to Comment6. emanuel on September 3, 2008 9:42 PM writes...
say thanks sure the spaniers are lost they still keep some hate they owe lost and we are not to frendly back unless they have some nice coments never let me use a keybord i was not allowed too:
Permalink to Comment7. dorian benkoil on October 23, 2008 5:42 PM writes...
So, here I am looking for your book -- and I see this "get a review copy" and IT'S ON THE CORANTE network. Had no idea I was in such good company. ... sheesh.
Permalink to Comment8. KWScott on December 17, 2008 2:56 AM writes...
Достаточно интересная и познавательная тема
Permalink to Comment9. Eric Alex on May 12, 2009 11:38 PM writes...
how to use the online copy. could we buy the book through online story. I mean the electronic copy of the book.
Permalink to Comment10. embarazo on May 19, 2009 4:43 AM writes...
I should have a copy of that, it seems pretty cool!
Permalink to Comment11. Oil Jobs on June 2, 2009 5:36 PM writes...
A very interesting piece. Wonder how to get hold of a copy ..
Permalink to Comment12. Dalam Hensi on June 9, 2009 4:30 PM writes...
Nice article.Thanks you.
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