Look for the Mouse
So glad @zefrank shared the link to this video of Clay Shirky speaking on Web 2.0 and time management.
Both this video and Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody will help me refocus the first chapter of my dissertation* b/c he makes the very obvious but necessary to hear point that “it’s better to do something than do nothing.” He sets up the binary between television media and participatory media to argue “media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for.” The NOLA bloggers I’m looking at started their blogging and wiking and photo and video-sharing as a result of Katrina and purposefully because they knew the mainstream media would get it wrong. So there you have it.
Go watch, experiment with social software, produce and share!
[*I'm totally a backwards writer. Discovering as you write means the intro has to change a dozen times]
3 Comments
Daisy,
This is such a great video–I saw the link on Boing Boing and sent it to my students writing on hypertext fiction. What’s the great quote? “A screen without a mouse is a screen that ships broken.”
Good luck with the diss!
Talking about web 2.0 and linking to the “here comes everybody” from amazon I would like to share this great site where you can get the latest deals on amazon: http://search.couponcodesmall.com it will be cool to share it here.
Daisy- Thanks for the web 2.0 video. Interesting video. I also like your pictures you posted.