Tags: social capital

Clay Shirky on the transformation of media
2009/6/16 (Tuesday) | Filed under: Uncategorized

Perhaps I laud him too much (I see his name is quite big in my tag cloud), but here is a 17-minute talk given by Clay Shirky at the U.S. State Department last month.  It is the epitome of what gets me excited about this whole damn thing we’re living through.  “Web 2.0″ is just [...]

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About Civic Capital
2008/11/9 (Sunday) | Filed under: dt=podcast, ported from old Blogger blog

I’ve been interested in social capital for many years (though I didn’t have a name for it before reading Robert Putnam’s groundbreaking book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.)
But I’d never heard the phrase civic capital before hearing it used to describe the effect of Barack Obama’s successful “netroots” campaign. The On [...]

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