Wise Contradictions

The Five Phases of Facebook

If you thought Facebook was a time-drain before, now they've gone and added Chat.   Their stock price notwithstanding, these clever folks are taking notice of how annoying Facebook's become.  Between their choice of Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire,"  for the melody, and replacing it with "we're getting sick of facebook," LLP81's video critique is one of the funniest things I've seen online in a while.  What are your thoughts on Facebook?

Here Comes Everybody (I'm here too!)

Clay Shirky's latest book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, discusses how light-weight web-based technologies like blogging, twittering and photo sharing sites like Flickr result in real world actions.  Shirky talked about the book at the Markle Foundation on April 10.  I'm going to highlight a new of Clay's examples and then reflect on what I think his ideas mean for traditional organizations.