David Cushman Interviews Clay Shirky

guest post by David Cushman

I was lucky enough to sit down with Here Comes Everybody author Clay Shirky in London at the end of last month.

We talked for 35 minutes - all of which you can watch in the video displayed below. It’s on googlevideo which means you can download it (recommended for best quality) to play back on your pc, ipod, whatever.

Questions were crowd-sourced from visitors to my personal blog and twitter accounts.

The result is way better than had I tried to tackle this alone.

Subjects covered include:
How algorithms caused the credit crunch; Why email still beats facebook, twitter et al; Messy as the welcome mat to human interaction (that’s one for brands and creatives!); why Here Comes Everybody doesn’t tackle copyright issues; Is technology changing us? and Scoring Collaboration in Education.