Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
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A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by equipment is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for excellent and for ill
A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each additional online and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite design in decades. A midwestern professor of Middle Eastern history starts a blog after 9/11 that becomes essential reading for journalists covering the Iraq war. Activists use the Internet and e-mail to bring offensive comments made by Trent Lott and Don Imus to a wide public and hound them from their positions. A few people find that a world-class online encyclopedia made entirely by volunteers and open for editing by anyone, a wiki, is not an impractical thought. Jihadi groups trade inspiration and instruction and showcase terrorist atrocities to the world, entirely online. A wide group of unrelated people swarms to a Web site about the theft of a cell phone and ultimately goads the New York City police to take action, leading to the culprit’s arrest.
With accelerating velocity, our age’s new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us, into new groups doing new things in new ways, and ancient and new groups alike doing the ancient things better and more easily. You don’t have to have a MySpace page to know that the times they are a changin’. Hierarchical structures that exist to manage the work of groups are seeing their raisons d’tre swiftly eroded by the rising technological tide. Business models are being ruined, transformed, born at dizzying speeds, and the larger social impact is profound.
One of the culture’s wisest observers of the transformational power of the new forms of tech-enabled social interaction is Clay Shirky, and Here Comes Everybody is his marvelous reckoning with the ramifications of all this on what we do and who we are. Like Lawrence Lessig on the effect of new equipment on regimes of cultural creation, Shirky’s assessment of the impact of new equipment on the scenery and use of groups is wonderfully broad minded, lucid, and penetrating; it integrates the views of a number of additional thinkers across a broad range of disciplines with his own pioneering work to provide a holistic framework for understanding the opportunities and the threats to the existing order that these new, spontaneous networks of social interaction represent. Wikinomics, yes, but also wikigovernment, wikiculture, wikievery imaginable interest group, including the far from savory. A revolution in social organization has commenced, and Clay Shirky is its brilliant chronicler.
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This book is appealing with some facts and facts that I like, but a lot of anecdotes to illustrate thoughts, which I am not hot on. Prefer the facts and principles
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
To me, this book is a signal that we are ready for the National Initiative for Democracy (http://ni4d.org). This proposal would amend the Constitution with a process for allowing direct vote on bills. The powers of Congress remain as they are; the NI4D proposal would not replace Congress. If we can harness a tiny fraction of the surplus attention of this country for government administration, we will quickly become the best managed country in the world.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Hey Clay, WAZZZZZZZZAAA?
I loved the book. Many thanks to Vanessa, Scott and Janet for the work they do. And now for my contribution– and my only post on Amazon (Farzad a la Mode)
I thought your book was thought provoking all the way to the end. You respected the reader enough not to do what so many authors do today, which is to keep repeating the same thing over and over again in simple words.
I also keep seeing things that echo with the lessons of your book. Did you see the NYT article about the case of the stolen Skyline GT? Another nice example of how if there’s like (in this case for a car) then online community action can be intense. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/automobiles/13STEAL.html
BTW- you frightened me with your Deaniac analysis- I sure hope that’s not the case w my man Obama- but he’s trading at 80c http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_DConv08.cfm so I’m still feeling excellent. (The newspaper headlines after PA should have read: “no new information in Clinton win- markets unmoved”).
Throughout the book I kept scribbling stuff down, and thinking- I should send this section on web 2.0 tools for human rights to Saman, or the section on “implicit promise” to Jamie (Heywood), or the piece on loose networks to Les. Sorry to say, it’s too much of a drag to scan and email. We need a better tool for this.
How’s this for an thought? If while I was reading your book, how about if I could add some marginalia (like my random thoughts above), and additional readers could see it too, and rank it. That way, I could choose to read not only your brilliant thoughts, but also the most highly regarded comments from all your readers. Kind of like the Talmud with commentary all around the original text (http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudPage.htm). Or alternatively, maybe I could only turn on my friends’ comments, so reading a book would be social like watching a movie with a bunch of friends and kibitzing is.
Anyway, looking forwards to talking to you soon- unless of course, you’re too legendary to get back to me. Cue “Stan” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_(song)
Farzad
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The writer makes some really eye-opening views into dynamics of groups, both in and outside of the Internet
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
1. A woman name Ivanna left her phone in the backseat of a New York City cab. The phone has an expensive feature call the sidekick, which came with a screen, keyboard, and built-in camera. Ivanna had information store in the repository about her upcoming wedding. Ivanna buys a new phone and the company copes her information on its servers on her new phone.
2. Ivanna discovers, a 16 year ancient girl, named Sasha living in queens through emailing distributed too friends messaging pictures and text using the ancient phone. Ivanna questions Evan Guttman, a friend, who previously posted a reward for return, now questions for the phone back from Sasha. Sasha will return the phone claiming her brother establish the phone in a cab and gave it to her. Evan builds a website name StolenSidekick highlight etiquette of returning lost items. Friends of Evan find a myspace picture of Sasha and her boyfriend and link it to the webpage. Evan posts how the phone was lost, who had it now, and how to file a aver with the New York Police department.
3. A man named Luis contacts Evan and says he is Sasha brother and a member of the Military police. Luis says that Sash bought the phone from the cabbie. Luis told Evan to stop harassing Sasha and hinted violence, if he didn’t layout. Evan’s tale appears on Diggs, a service that excise thumbs up or thumbs down. The tale struck a nerve and Evan receives tens of emails a minute.
4. Evan writes forty commentaries within ten days.
5. Members of Luis’s Military Police unit wrote to inquire about allegations that an MP was threatening a civilian and promised to look into the matter. Evan moves the debate to a bulletin board and more people join the discussion of events.
6. Several people in NYC government wrote in offering help to get the complaint amended
7. Millions of readers were watching the evens and dozens of mainstream new outlets covered the tale. People wanted to “fight injustice” using the social network.
8. On Jun 15, the NYPD, arrested Sasha and delivered the Stolen phone to Ivanna. Evan wrote, “The tale of righting a incorrect is a powerful one and helped him generate the involvement of others that finally led to the recovery of the phone.”
9. “Image how disorienting it must have been for Sasha to learn that the owner of the phone really did have an army of sorts, including lawyers and cops, along with an international audience of millions.”
10. When a group comes together community control is not simple. The group must find a shared vision. Do want a world where a grownup can leverage knowledge and experience to a teenager arrested for a crime? Millions wanted Sasha to be arrested and punished for her misdeeds. But, we want the punishment to fit the crime, Justice. Do we want a world where a name with leverage gets riled up and resets the priorities of the local police department?
11. As a group grows it becomes impossible for everyone to interact directly with everyone else. Hierarchies simplify communication and the boss plays a more vital role. But, as transaction costs go towards zero, more decentralized processing emerges. Transaction costs are the basic constraints to all organizations. If we have markets, why do we have organizations at all? Why can’t all exchanges of value occur in the market? Worker could simply contract with one another, buy and sell their labor, in a market, lacking needing any managerial oversight.
12. Electronic networks are enabling the creation of collaborative groups that are larger and more distributed than any additional time in history.
13. For group to take collective action, it must have some shared vision strong enough to bind the group together, it must have some shared vision strong enough to bind the group.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5