I must admit, I’m not much of a gamer. Even the word conjures images of nerdy teenagers sitting in front of their computer shooting aliens with a joystick. I’m not trying to offend all you gamers out there, in fact that’s the opposite of the point of this post. While I was [...]
June 28, 2008
Wikipedia: Knowledge as a Social Tool
This week, I finished reading Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. In his book, Shirky examines group efforts, and how the internet has given them great power to “organize without organization.” Online groups are limitless in their number of members and categories. You can find a group for almost anything on the internet. How about people [...]