While finishing the other two books, I started reading "Here Comes Everybody-The Power of Organizing without Organizations" by Clay Shirky.
He talks about how the new technology of the recent years has created amazing ways for people to get together for various reasons without there being a large organization shaping that "getting together." The best example so far in the book is flickr. You can share your photos with tags and make groups to continue sharing and commenting and interacting with people. Flickr was the first place that photos were "published" after the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London and after the horrible tsunami in Indonesia.
I'm only about a third of the way into the book, but am looking forward to more. I wonder if Twitter was at full speed when he was writing this book. I'm curious about his thoughts on that.
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