My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Tag Archives: Clay Shirky
Cognitive Surplus and The Shallows
I am currently reading Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky. I’m about a third of the way through it, and I hope to post a few thoughts here when I have time to set them in electrons. I also bought The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, which I will read immediately after Shirky’s book. I imagine that [...]
Posted in New Media, Social Networking, The Human Condition Also tagged Cognitive Surplus, Nicholas Carr Comments closed
Notes on Nicholas Carr
Notes on a February 2009 Nicholas Carr article.
Posted in New Media Also tagged communication, Jeff Jarvis, journalism, Marc Glasberg, micropayments, Nicholas Carr, revolution Comments closed
Amateurs may be the future of journalism, but can we count on them?
Timothy Lee has a post from March 25 at TechDirt about the future of hyperlocal news. Lee tells us something that we already know: the Web provides a decentralized framework that will easily support a disorganized news system that doesn’t look much like the hierarchical one that currently runs the paper-dominated journalism industry. Rather than a [...]
Revolution and the unthinkable scenario
We are living through a revolution, writes Clay Shirky, just like the one that Gutenberg started around 1500. And all revolutions are more or less the same, he writes: “The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff gets put in its place.” The old stuff getting broken in this case is newspapers. More and [...]
Posted in Higher Education, New Media, Print Culture, Site News Also tagged current crisis, experients, Gutenberg, journalism, New Media, newspapers, printing, publishing, revolution Comments closed
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