After hearing Clay Shirky’s brilliant speech at the Web 2.0 Expo, I just had to grab his first book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.

I wasn’t disappointed. Read more

Last year, Chris Anderson identified the Long Tail of human potential — our collective free time activities now being connected by the Internet and automatically coordinated into wonderfully useful collaborative projects.

Now Clay Shirky explains the rise of that potential in Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, his speech at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Read more