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| Author: Clay Shirky
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 1066
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 1594201536
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4833
EAN: 9781594201530
ASIN: 1594201536
Publication Date: February 28, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 THE FUTURE, NOW April 7, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Clay Shirky has written a highly insightful, extremely forward-thinking, compellingly readable and absolutely brilliant analysis of the future of collective social intelligence, action and achievement. This is where the world is headed - buy it and read it now.
 Interesting, but not as powerful as "Marketing to the Social Web" April 6, 2008
5 out of 25 found this review helpful
This book is interesting with some facts and figures that I like, but a lot of anecdotes to illustrate ideas, which I am not hot on. Prefer the facts and principles
Well-written and informative April 5, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Clay Shirky does a very good job documenting and explaining how new technological tools (e-mail, weblogs, wikis etc.) have, after becoming widely accessible, revolutionized how social groups can form, interact and achieve their goals.
He cites the usual suspects like e.g. Linux and Wikipedia as exceptional feats in free collaboration. But there are a lot of other interesting stories about small and large groups with vastly different objectives in the book you have probably never heard of.
And more importantly, while he explains how these projects and the tools they use work (in a way geared toward non-techies), the book is really about why they work from a sociological point of view. It is delighting to notice all those communities and group projects that have come out of nowhere to, seemingly without organization, build something for themselves and others. But it is really enlightening to read Shirky's well-written explanation of the underlying principles.
The book is fun to read and, considering its topic's impact on society, should be of interest to just about everybody.
Really Simple Review April 2, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Shirky writes like Malcolm Gladwell. If you liked "Tipping Point" and "Blink," and you want an equally intelligent and lucid explanation of how social technology is revolutionizing culture and the web, this is your book.
 Greatt, well written story March 28, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
The writer creates some really eye-opening views into dynamics of groups, both in and outside of the Internet
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