Excellent, excellent article posted on Slashdot today:
http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html Clay Shirky has been giving talks on his book Here Comes Everybody - his "masterpiece," per Cory Doctorow - and BoingBoing picks up one of <http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/27/death-of-the-sitcom.html> them, from the Web 2.0 conference. Shirky has come up with a quantification <http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html> of the attention that TV has been absorbing for more than half a century. Shirky defines as a unit of attention "the Wikipedia": 100 million person-hours of thought. As a society we have been burning 2,000 Wikipedias per year watching mostly sitcoms. We're stopping now. Here's a video of another <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2008/02/shirky> information-dense Shirky talk, this one at Harvard. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
