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Open Analysis (openanalysis.wordpress.com):
… cognitive surplusin his recent speech at Web 2.0, promoting his latest book, Here Comes Everybody. Shirky’s point is the gradual replacement of passive media consumption (watching TV) with participatory media (Wikipedia, blogs). …

Kress Consulting — technology, teamwork, training (www.kcon.us):
… This talk …

Brandt.Kurowski.net (brandt.kurowski.net):
… “Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.” —Gin, Television, and Social SurplusMore about this quotation …

Communities Dominate Brands (communities_dominate.blogs.com):
… writes a very philosophical piece …

Copyfight: the politics of IP (copyfight.corante.com):
… an essay called "Gin, Television, and Social Surplus" …

On Shadow (www.12thpress.com):
… A recent postis a transcript of a lecture he gave on how sitcoms are like gin in that both mask a “cognitive surplus” brought around by radical changes in social structure (the internet and the industrial revolution, respectively). He goes on: …

the evangelical outpost (evangelicaloutpost.com):
… not. Because at every moment those decisions were made God was whispering for people to do the right thing, the just thing, the merciful thing. But we chose not to listen. God has done his job. We haven't done ours. °°°°°° 2. Clay Shirky onsitcoms and cognitive surplus: So how big is that [cognitive] surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something …

Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid! (bicyclemarketingwatch.blogspot.com):
… Now don't go thinking I thought this up all by myself, it's true that I have been thinking about this, but it took a smart social thinker to contextualise it in terms we can all understand. Here comes everybody! Or more accurately here isClay Shirkyin a piece that generated a lot of buzz among social thinkers and which put a bit more flesh on the skeleton of that thinking. It's a really clarifying read that makes you realise that you do have the time to create, not only for yourself but for your …

E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez (elsua.net):
… It is way easier, and much more effective, to manage your time through social computing tools than through e-mail. And now there is something else I can refer folks to that could help answer the question quite nicely as well. Check out Clay Shirky’skeynote sessionover at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco where you would be able to listen / read about some really fascinating stuff that Gina Trapani, over at Lifehacker, has put together quite nicely as a very thought-provoking summary in …

The LAMP Watercooler (www.lamp.edu.au):
… fascinating post on his blogabout the sheer amount of brain power invested in television and, in specific, the amount of time we spend watching advertisements. According to Shirky, Americans spend the same amount of brain power watching television advertisements every weekend as …

Miscellanea 2.0 (elver.wordpress.com):
… time between huge advancements in science and technology become so short as to be nonexistent. In other words: social changes akin to the industrial revolution will be happening every day and as Alan Moore says: “All bets are off.” Clay Shirky ina speech at the recent Web 2.0 conferencepoints to a theory that a British historian is arguing for: that the critical technology for the early phase of the industrial revolution was gin. “The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing …

m³s online Pamphlet (www.leyrer.priv.at):
… of mindlessly watching sitcoms: Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.Gin, Television, and Social SurplusTagged as: time, tv, video, web 2.0 [Sonntag, 20080504, 19:19 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e) …

Blogs / Weblogs in Higher Education (www.mchron.net):
… Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Units of human thought. In a recent talk,Clay Shirky estimatesthat Wikipedia represents 100 million hours of human thought, all given voluntarily by people who realize that they are invited to participate and create and shape knowledge. Shirky estimates that this is a miniscule portion of the cognitive potential …

cobolhacker.com (www.cobolhacker.com):
… Gin, Television, and Social Surplus. I’m not sure if it is ‘waste’ to not do productive things all the time, as the article seems to imply. I don’t think it is optimal for humans to work at full mental capacity continuously. Sometimes you need to waste time by watching T.V. and …

Life on Earth (formoneplanet.blogspot.com):
… This …

credit is like fire (credit.concedere.net):
… # re:Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody …

Hot Links - Level 3 (dev.upian.com):
… Gin, Television, and Social Surplus7 days ago Linkorama : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky's speech at Web2expo Andy Baio : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - transcript of Clay Shirky's excellent keynote from the Web 2.0 Expo; watch it instead …

Hot Links - Level 3 (dev.upian.com):
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The FASTForward Blog: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary (www.fastforwardblog.com):
… habits, and tend to underestimate the impacts in the longer term because we overlook or ignore the scope and depth of accumulated change" (not verbatim). Today I found this snippet from Clay Shirky’s now-well-knownWeb 2.0 Expo keynote. In my opinion he puts none too fine a point on the fact that the Internet seems to be with us to stay, and that it’s impacts will continue to accumulate.  Tomorrow’s workers won’t understand meetings, collaboration, supervision or …

The Errant Æsthete (theerrantaesthete.com):
… . One reason for the move away from public funds is that Obama could raise more many than would be available to him through the public financing program. [WSJ] According to author Clay Shirky and IBM researcher Martin Wattenberg,Wikipedia represents about 100 million hours of human thought. Compare that to 200 billion hours of television watched in the US every year. [kottke] Over the last six decades, the real incomes of middle-class families grew twice as fast under Democratic presidents as they did under Republican presidents …