Supernova Interview – Clay Shirky
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 take on the “everybody” Shirky discusses in his book. This was worthy of a post about the real-time web and filtering.
