Tag Archives: participation

Location-Based Ambient Storytelling

Posted on Jan 2, 2009 by Jeff Watson

A proposal for a directed research project that seeks to identify and implement a range of context and location-based storytelling techniques. Continue reading →

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CBC interviews Clay Shirky

Posted on Dec 24, 2008 by Jeff Watson

This week on Spark, a feature interview with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Clay and Nora talk about the pros and cons of social media, new online business models online, and how … Continue reading →

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Geograph British Isles

Posted on Oct 15, 2008 by Jeff Watson

Geograph British Isles is a crowdsourcing project that “…aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland.” They just got their 1,000,000th photograph today. It’s called, “Minor road near Aberuchill.” Here it … Continue reading →

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Gin, Television and Social Surplus

Posted on Apr 26, 2008 by Jeff Watson

From Clay Shirky‘s speech at the Web 2.0 Conference, April 24, 2008. In this excerpt, Shirky responds to an oft-asked question about participatory culture and “surplus cognition”: I was being interviewed by a TV producer to see whether I should … Continue reading →

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Interesting Responses Abound

Posted on Feb 21, 2008 by Jeff Watson

…from writers such as Clay Shirky, Jane McGonigal and Imogen Heap, courtesy Zefrank: I sent the following question to a number of friends and acquaintances who work in a variety of different disciplines. As the answers come in, I will … Continue reading →

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