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Couple of smart video presentations we've come across recently.

We're huge admirers of Clay Shirky of course. Here he is at TED@State (that's a sort of mini-TED hosted by the US State Department... that's how influential TED has become), riffing on the role of digital and social media in politics, in the spread of democracy in the dissemination of a message. There's too much in here for us to really single out any observation, but if we were forced to it'd probably be that (and this is a familiar Shirky-ism) that it's not novel services which are interesting, but rather ubiquitous, or at least mainstream ones.

And - a little older this - a presentation to Google's Zeitgeist 2008 conference by IPR lawyer James Boyle arguing that human beings have a systemic inability to see the importance of open, networked systems, and consequently are prejudiced in the beliefs, generally preferring to support closed systems. That's hamfistedly put. Watch Boyle instead... he's remarkably clear-thinking while discursive and wide-ranging in his topics.
Simon
 


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