Harvesting goodies from Hear Comes Everybody

One of my sidebar sections (right side of this page) is titled LINE, PLEASE. This is where I've linked to posts featuring my favorites lines from books and movies. I find this a very handy way to find a quote or line that would otherwise be lost to me.

My latest addition is a page for quotes from Clay Shirky's book, Here Comes Everybody. I'm about-three fourths of the way through this book and it's packed with --for me-- fresh ideas and insights. If you want to understand the social networking phenomenon, pick up this book.

And if you think --as I have for the last couple of years-- that social networking is for kids on MySpace or Facebook, with little relevance for you... you're wrong. It's having a lot of impact but you have to know where to look to see it. Mr. Shirky shows us.

A few weeks ago Mr. Shirky gave a book talk at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and they've posted a video of the talk (40 mins).