Here Comes Clay Shirky (The Changing of the Guestbloggers)
Many thanks to our outgoing guestblogger Dale Dougherty, who contributed a number of superb posts here over the past couple of weeks, and appeared in an episode of Boing Boing tv today. Thank you so much, Dale!
We'd now like to give a big welcome today to our next guestblogger, Clay Shirky. I first met Clay, geez, like 10 years ago? When I was working with Jason Calacanis at Silicon Alley Reporter magazine in New York City. Back then, the internet media business was a dazzling, luminous orb we all stood around and gazed upon, all slack-jawed and doe-eyed and hopeful. Clay was one of the most inspiring and insightful personalities I knew during those years, and more pragmatic and BS-resistant than most. That much has not changed.
Clay is the author of the superb new book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. He teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, where he works on the overlap of social and technological networks.
We're very excited to have him on board for the next couple of weeks. Welcome, Clay!
Clay Shirky Boing Boing Guestblog posts:
* Video from the Presidential Campaign, Republican Division
* Jeff Smith's comic RASL
* Publish Without Perishing
* Here Comes Clay Shirky (The Changing of the Guestbloggers)
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Rock on! I love Clay Shirky!
Can't wait to see what he posts!
Indeed, I second the on rocking. For anyone who is interested and hasn't heard, he was on the EconTalk podcast a few weeks ago, and he gave a TED talk, too.
The EconTalk interview is great, but I haven't heard the TED talk yet.
I would like to run a guess blog in the comment section of your guest blog, if that's ok?
Joy! Clay Shirky is tied in the number one position for people that I'd like to be stuck in an elevator with (any chance we could also get Susan Blackmore as a guestblogger?).
Sweet. Can we have Mark Pesce or Jan Chipchase next? They're also on my 'read this person to make the world better' list.
Jean-Luc Picard's younger brother?