John Locke As John Locke pointed out, democracy relies on electors allowing a small group of individuals to have power over the rest of us. We give them our consent to let them govern us. Here in … more →
Mindworks' Weblogjeffcarruthers wrote 1 month ago: What strange and exhilarating times we live in… this “internet connectivity thing … more →
jontownsend wrote 3 months ago: In the spring of 2008, hordes of people descended on the city of San Francisco for a gathering that … more →
MsAnjolie wrote 3 months ago: The term cognitive surplus refers to the idle time your brain could be doing something creative/prod … more →
Andrew Cooper wrote 6 months ago: John Locke As John Locke pointed out, democracy relies on electors allowing a small group of indiv … more →
Andrew Cooper wrote 9 months ago: Earlier this morning I commented on the blog post here which is about a subject that interests me. … more →
jontownsend wrote 9 months ago: Several weeks ago, I read a short transcript of a speech given by Clay Shirky at the Web 2.0 confere … more →
Andrew Cooper wrote 10 months ago: In my review of Here Comes Everybody I pointed out that I was surprised that Clay Shirky didn’ … more →
shannonwalker wrote 10 months ago: Perhaps I’m coming to this a bit late, but I found an excellent statement of why libraries mus … more →
qitsune wrote 10 months ago: Some months ago, I came upon an article by Clay Shirky called Gin, Television, and Social Surplus. T … more →
Andrew Cooper wrote 1 year ago: Newton George H Bush allegedly said that he didn’t do ‘the vision thing’ (althou … more →
mimanifesto wrote 1 year ago: I’ve got my name in TESS again this week – but this time it’s an article I wrote a … more →
Wildcat wrote 1 year ago: A Talk By Clay Shirky from the talk: “We’re going to look at every place that a reader o … more →
Andrew Cooper wrote 1 year ago: Without going into the gory details, a Facebook group set up to save the building you can see here h … more →
Andrew Cooper wrote 1 year ago: I first came across mind maps in the 1970s at an Open University summer school and have been using t … more →
Andrew Cooper wrote 1 year ago: Well, Dorset was very pleasant indeed as you can see from the photo. But I’m now back, rechar … more →
Andrew Cooper wrote 1 year ago: Based on the responses I’ve been getting via email, I think it’s fair to say that few pe … more →
Jo Jordan wrote 1 year ago: I read a great post this morning suggesting the Clay Shirky has it wrong. We don’t really hav … more →
kelpenhagen wrote 1 year ago: I wanted to jot down a few things I am thinking about, but doing nothing concrete on… 1. this … more →
doubledogblog wrote 1 year ago: I just read a very fascinating blog post titled “Gin, Television, and Social Surplus” … more →