Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
 

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky

A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill

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Dvortygirl
  • Rated 5 stars

I enjoyed reading this book. I'm an active wiki editor, and I think Shirky characterizes the phenomena very well. It's also well written and kept my interest all the way through. It's worth seeing Shirky speak (or watching a video of him), too.

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Matt Bayly
  • Rated 2 stars

If you've used Flickr or Facebook, have read a blog, and have at least heard of Twitter, you can skip this book - you already get it. I like Clay Shirky, he gives great talks, but here he writes almost in circles, fluffing up simple example stories to many pages and then referring to them repeatedly throughout the book as if they capture some great Truth. Why is it that everyone who writes about the Internet has to throw in a history of information, starting with Gutenberg?

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  • cast42

    cast42 said:

    A good review and interview with Clay can be found at Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/book-review-2008-04-1.ars/

    posted Thursday, April 3 2008
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