Clay Shirky’s very fine blog post on how leaving telly behind might free us to do more with our surplus brain power, time an attention.
“Where do people find the time?”
That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, “No
one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the
time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you’ve been
masking for 50 years”.
Just mention it in case you haven’t read it yet.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3KpEu0ELzE]
Very good looking site at myturf designed as a means of coordinating volunteer effort in teh city. I’ll be interested to see how/if it works.
Hat tip Jemimakiss.
Since the last time we got together at the end of March a number of folk have arranged smaller meetings. This is intended to be the monthly main session. Al at Rooty Frooty in the Custard Factory is happy to stay open again for us, this time 6pm to about 9pm on Tuesday April 29th.
Not much on the agenda, although some of you might want to talk about the first UK based Barcamp for WordPress users: WordcampUK, which will be held in Birmingham on the weekend of 19th and 20th July 2008. Tony Scott got the ball rolling with this post and since then there has been a collective plumping for Birmingham as a city central enough to make sense for all sorts of folk.
Of course most of you might just want to have a chinwag and enjoy a spring evening in good company. Last month a number of people came along who were simply interested in blogging and social media in general. It’s relaxed enough to be open for all. We have a Facebook group.