Explaining the Cognitive Surplus (by Jeremy Zawodny)

I really enjoyed watching Clay Shirky’s talk on Cognitive Surplus at the Web 2.0 Expo last week. He does such a good job at explaining how and why watching TV is no longer the de-facto spare time activity that I’m going…

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YouTube Aims to Monetize in a Post-TV Era - ReadWriteWeb

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt made big promises of mysterious, highly-interactive new methods of monetizing YouTube in a CNBC interview today. “We believe the best products are coming out this year,” he said. “And they’re…

Clay Shirky and the Cognitive Surplus

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody: Clay Shirky gave a heckuva talk at the Web 2.0 Expot about what he calls “the cognitive surplus.” Here’s the theory —

After the industrial…

Google Docs vs. the Hassle of Microsoft Office and Friends (by Jeremy Zawodny)

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Last week I lost a ton of productivity because the hard disk on my laptop failed. There’s a long story behind this.

The short version is that I knew it was failing for a few weeks and, yes, I had backups. The IT…

Getting off the Web 2.0 Hype Treadmill (by Jeremy Zawodny)

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In Why We’re Like a Million Monkeys on Treadmills, Steve Rubel doesn’t exactly say why we’re like the monkeys, but does talk about something I noticed quite a while ago.

The Web 2.0 construction boom is bigger now t…

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