posted by devonwhittle on May 17, 2008
2,000 Wikipedias every year
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This speech by Clay Shirky is probably one of the most important things I’ve read for a while. In it he answers that question I get asked all to often - “Where do you find the time?”. He estimates that the time Americans watch TV every year is equivalent to 2,000 Wikipedias! In fact, the time watching advertisements is 1 Wikipedia every weekend. Crazy stuff.
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Tim Bauer
I have been tracking Clay Shirky myself and, as part of my daily study of various leaders (peoples & companies), I recently did a cliff notes writeup of his presentation @ TechExpo 2.0 around the topic here:
http://timbauer.bauerfive.com/2008/05/07/clay-shirky-author-the-world-is-drunk-on-tv/
So if you another man’s opinion on what he emphasized might be worth a gander. Either way … good stuff.
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May 17th, 2008
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