Clay Shirkey's Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 Speech

NYU's ITP prof Clay Shirkey, author of Here Comes Everybody, riffs on cognitive surplus, where people find the time to spend with interactive media, social mapping of crime in Brazil, "it's better do something than nothing", LOLcats and sitcoms.

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[Ayala Rahav]

The mouse is a prerequisite for managing the surplus – but in order to really reflect me, the user, it has to take into account my context – otherwise the abundance will remain overwhelming and the mouse can only activate technical filters.

One of the keys is taking a holistic approach of contexting people and not the content they interact with. It is a paradigm shift that puts me, the user, at the center, and turns filtering from a “push” situation, into a “pull” situation based on personal context. Once this holistic approach of an inclusive person’s context becomes the prismatic angle through which s/he interacts with the digital world, the overwhelming over pour of web interactions is turned into a humanizing experience.

More on that in the blog post: Contexting people – mitigating the information-overload / attention-management crisis. www.I4c-corp.com