shirky-gladwell

Shirky / Gladwell Debate

toc =Clay Shirky=


 * " Institutions vs. Collaboration ," TED talk given July 2005, at []. Good question ("How do groups get anything done") at 0:13-0:18. Discussion of power law distributions at 6:40,,,).
 * Interviewed on The Colbert Report, April 3, 2008, at http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/164882/april-03-2008/clay-shirky
 * Shirky's blog, at http://www.shirky.com/weblog/
 * Shirky's Twitter feed, at http://twitter.com/cshirky



Collaboration happens through participation: when the barriers to organization are lowered enough to allow greater input from a multitude of informally linked, horizontally distributed contributors.

=Malcolm Gladwell= Staff writer for the //New Yorker//, and a successful lecturer/author on social trends (i.e., //The Tipping Point//, //Blink//).


 * "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted," in part a direct critique of Shirky's //Here Comes Everybody//. //New Yorker//, October 4, 2010, at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell
 * "Does Egypt Need Twitter," in which he writes of the protests that "surely the least interesting fact about them is that some of the protesters may (or may not) have at one point or another employed some of the tools of the new media to communicate with one another. Please." //The New Yorker//, February 2, 2011, at http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/02/does-egypt-need-twitter.html
 * Gladwell's web page, at http://www.gladwell.com/
 * Interviewed on //The Colbert Report//, November 17, 2010, at http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/210677/november-17-2008/malcolm-gladwell



Collaboration happens through organization: when participants with close, sustained, personal connections ("strong ties") are linked to institutions with a well-defined, hierarchical structure.

=Tunisia=

Slim Amamou
Tunisian "Pirate Party" activist with Twitter feed, now part of reformed government. (Twitter bio reads " Against censorship, Against IPR, For net neutrality. Incidentally Sec. of State for Youth & Sports ."


 * Current account, at http://twitter.com/slim404
 * Censored Twitter account, at http://twitter.com/slim_amamou
 * No Memory Space blog, at http://nomemoryspace.wordpress.com/
 * New York Times story about Amamou by David D. Kirkpatrick, "Tunisia’s Inner Workings Emerge on Twitter," January 22, 2011, at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/world/africa/23tunis.html

=Egypt=

In Shirky
Writers/activists mentioned in Clay Shirky, //Here Comes Everybody//, pp. 184-187


 * Twitter feed of Alaa Abd El Fattah, at http://twitter.com/alaa
 * Blog of (for?) Abdel Monem Mahmoud, at http://ana-ikhwan.blogspot.com/
 * Shirky's own Twitter feed is, at the moment, largely devoted to events in Egypt, at http://twitter.com/cshirky

On Facebook
Facebook groups/pages playing role in organizing/publicizing protests


 * El Shaheed (579,000 members), at http://www.facebook.com/ElShaheeed
 * Event page for January 28 protest, at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141531305908212&index=1