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Here’s another insight I gained from Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations.
I (Seth) regard myself as an idealist. When I first encountered Wikipedia, I was excited by what I perceived to be an idealistic tool which fully and equally validated every participant and contribution. So I found it difficult at [...]

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Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations has lots of terrific insights. Here’s one about activism.
He describes a couple examples of citizen activism facilitated by new social tools. One is about angry airline passengers organizing to create an Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights by using newspaper interactivity and an online petition [...]

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(Note: this is a little long, but I’ve been thinking about it for a while…)
At many meetings or conferences, participants wear name tags. At a minimum the tag contains a self-written first name (perhaps preceded by “Hello. My name is…”). Or meetings with registered users may have name tags with pre-printed names, organizational affiliations, location [...]

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