Clay Shirky in the video below hits on themes that run throughout this blog. His 13:08 of audio/video is time well spent. He mentions:
- Free Time
- Couch Potatoes
- Good at Consuming
- Creativity – People like to create
- Cats
- Intrinsic Motivations
- Kenya
- Design for Generosity
- Tacit Information
- Crisis Map
- Communal Value
- Civic Value
- Humor
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
The blog Information Is Beautiful did a fun illustration using a stat from the speech – 200 billion hours of Watching TV a year and the time spent working on Wikipedia. Quite the comparison.
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