Things are going to get wierder

Via Jake McKee I just discovered this video of Chris Heuer interviewing Clay Shirky:

Clay’s long been a favorite speaker of mine - Perl as an act of love and the cognitive surplus being two other videos featured here - and Chris does a great interview here.

My favorite quote, as you might suspect given the tagline of this blog: “Things are going to get wierder before they get saner.” We’re in the midst of a long transformation - we’ve left point A but point B won’t be clear for some time.

Some people out there in our nation don’t have maps

An oldie but a goodie. The folks at ROFLCON just announced that Miss Teen USA South Carolina will be the emcee at the upcoming SF-ROFL thing (August 29th).

Unfortunately I don’t think I will be able to get to this one - and not because I can’t find San Francisco on my map. Unlike many U.S. Americans I believe in building up our future for our children and that our education here should help the Iraq and the Asian countries.

Beyond Broadcast 2008, Fair Use Guide

As appropriate for a conference by that name, the folks at the Center for Public Media at American University have made available a ton of content from Beyond Broadcast available online.

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Cultural Significance of Free Software: Two Bits

I’ve mentioned Chris Kelty’s Two Bits as part of my summer reading list. Although I have the PDF sitting in my “to read” folder I think I’m waiting on the hardcover I ordered from Amazon. Seems like the kind of book that requires more reflective reading.

In the meanwhile, here’s Chris presenting at a Berkman Luncheon Series event on June 17th, 2008:

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Enterprise 2.0 - SocialCalc explained

Quick video interview from Digiphile at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, in which Dan Bricklin explains SocialCalc, which Ross Mayfield announced yesterday, and brings social spreadsheet functionality into SocialText wikis:
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