Comments on: FASTforward’09 Interview: Clay Shirky, Author, Consultant, Professor http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/02/10/fastforward09-interview-clay-shirky-author-consultant-professor/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paula Thornton http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/02/10/fastforward09-interview-clay-shirky-author-consultant-professor/comment-page-1/#comment-212494 Paula Thornton Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:35:46 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=1669#comment-212494 Not to diminish anything from this fabulous interview (with great contributions from both Clay and Josh, this interesting artifact related to the state of the Newspaper industry was raised on Twitter today: @JDEbberly: Networked link journalism: A revolution quietly begins in Washington state, by Publishing 2.0 - <a href="http://sn.im/bse4o" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://sn.im/bse4o</a> To which I also noted: @rotkapchen: In all of this talk about Newspapers dying, and even in @cshirky's stuff, concept of journalists operating sans newspaper, never mentioned. Clearly, Clay's book is focused on organizing without organizations and this scenario clearly fits that model, so it was not my intent to suggest that he missed something. Another conversation today tried to argue that Social Media could be leveraged to reach the masses and used the Obama campaign as an example. To which I replied: Social media is best leveraged to build 'individual' relationships. Otherwise it's just media. The goal is not to reach more, it's to reach across a broader range to engage the 'best' relationships. But as Clay suggests in his closing statements, it is the larger connected collection of these smaller intimate relationships that there becomes a force of magnitude. Not to diminish anything from this fabulous interview (with great contributions from both Clay and Josh, this interesting artifact related to the state of the Newspaper industry was raised on Twitter today:

@JDEbberly: Networked link journalism: A revolution quietly begins in Washington state, by Publishing 2.0 – http://sn.im/bse4o

To which I also noted:
@rotkapchen: In all of this talk about Newspapers dying, and even in @cshirky's stuff, concept of journalists operating sans newspaper, never mentioned.

Clearly, Clay's book is focused on organizing without organizations and this scenario clearly fits that model, so it was not my intent to suggest that he missed something.

Another conversation today tried to argue that Social Media could be leveraged to reach the masses and used the Obama campaign as an example. To which I replied:
Social media is best leveraged to build 'individual' relationships. Otherwise it's just media. The goal is not to reach more, it's to reach across a broader range to engage the 'best' relationships.

But as Clay suggests in his closing statements, it is the larger connected collection of these smaller intimate relationships that there becomes a force of magnitude.

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