Princeton University, Clay Shirky, & the RSA

One of my recent library listservs posted a HIT that was too interesting to ignore “ Alternatives to YouTube.” I checked out the UC Princeton link (http://uc.princeton.edu/main/ ), clicked on Clay Shirky, then sought to find out more about the London RSA group that hosted Shirky’s talk. What a treasure trove of interesting people, organizations, conversations and links!

Clay Shirky, NYU professor of Interactive Telecommunications, recently published “Here Comes Everybody,” (Penquin Press HC Feb. 2008) and spoke early in 2008 at the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (RSA), London, England.

The RSA site offers video of the first 22 minutes of the talk. The Princeton audio clip appears to include that talk and the subsequent Q & A discussion.

Video Broadcast about 22 minutes, from RSA. http://www.thersa.org/events/vision/vision-videos/clay-shirky

Audio Broadcast – about an hour, from UC Channel, Princeton University. http://uc.princeton.edu/main/images/stories/podcast/20080318ClayShirkyRSA.mp3

Shirky’s 2 blogs/websites:

http://www.shirky.com/

http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/ Shirky’s book related blog.

Amazon.com offers an excellent review and highlights of the book written by Robert D. Steele:

http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organizations/dp/1594201536/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213453262&sr=8-1

Finally, just to satisfy curiosity, here's Wikipedia’s entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky

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