Comments on: Clay Shirky and the “cognitive surplus” http://mathewingram.com/media/2008/04/27/clay-shirky-and-the-cognitive-surplus/ ...watching the intersection of the Web and media Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:07:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mathew http://mathewingram.com/media/2008/04/27/clay-shirky-and-the-cognitive-surplus/#comment-18710 Mathew Tue, 06 May 2008 20:07:48 +0000 http://mathewingram.com/media/?p=553#comment-18710 Thanks for the comment, James. Thanks for the comment, James.

]]> By: James McNally http://mathewingram.com/media/2008/04/27/clay-shirky-and-the-cognitive-surplus/#comment-18707 James McNally Tue, 06 May 2008 19:25:12 +0000 http://mathewingram.com/media/?p=553#comment-18707 This reminds me of my long-running arguments with my geekier friends who hate sports. Sports is a big waste of time, they say. And instead, they spend their time catching up on Battlestar Galactica and playing World of Warcraft. Reverse snobbery, I say... By the way, I'm reading Shirky's book Here Comes Everybody and it ties in nicely with a lot of what you've been writing about (ie. newspapers migrating to being exclusively online, the Long Tail and the power law, etc.) This reminds me of my long-running arguments with my geekier friends who hate sports. Sports is a big waste of time, they say. And instead, they spend their time catching up on Battlestar Galactica and playing World of Warcraft. Reverse snobbery, I say…

By the way, I’m reading Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody and it ties in nicely with a lot of what you’ve been writing about (ie. newspapers migrating to being exclusively online, the Long Tail and the power law, etc.)

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