Archive for July 22nd, 2009
When you think about Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, and Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur, you don’t usually look for places they agree. However, in the two video interviews posted today (Clay, Andrew) on the SupernovaHub, it is clear both of them are noticing similar problems keeping up with the real-time web.
The real-time web should be familiar to those who try to parse their Twitter feeds for critical information, or attempt keep up with the flow of information from their friends on the Facebook newsfeed. Much of the information is raw, unfiltered, out of context, or just... Read More
In this video interview from the Personal Democracy Forum 2009, Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, discusses the Iran Twitter situation (but doesn’t want to call it a “Twitter revolution”). He tells Howard Greenstein how the immediacy of this kind of media reporting affects us differently than standard news programming. Clay also discusses the overload many people experience when trying to parse the real-time web, a topic of interest to many who are interested in the Change Networks theme of Supernova 2009.
Of addition interest is how Clay’s opinions about filtering the real-time web coincide with those of Andrew Keen, who has a very different... Read More
In this video, Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur and talks with Howard Greenstein about his views on the value of real time, in person interaction in the age of online social networking. Additionally, Andrew has some very insightful comments regarding our need for filtering and editorial oversight in the age of the real-time web, which is a very important part of the Change Network theme for Supernova 2009.
UPDATE: Even more interesting (and worthy of its own blog post) is the way Keen’s views and those of Clay Shirky intersect.
