February Meetup

Sounds good to me.

Let's say 6p, but a week later (2/21), at 1110 Wealthy SE. Then Winchester post-haste.

Is anyone else going to the gr econ club meeting on 2/14, featuring Clay Shirky?

I am going to the meeting and would be happy to pose any questions from GR Drupal Community...

Here is the meeting intro teaser;

Clay is a provocative new voice on all things internet: social networks and media, economics and culture, connected communities, and the open source movement. He divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the way network technologies provide new ways for groups to get things done, including collaborative tools, social networks, peer-to-peer sharing, collaborative filtering, and Open Source development.

In addition to his consulting work, Clay is an adjunct professor in NYU’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology – how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.

Clay has written extensively about the Internet since 1996. His recent book, Cognitive Surplus, explores how social technologies and media are changing us, from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. He has had regular columns and his writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review. TIME featured him with other futurists in a fall 2005 story entitled “What’s Next.”

Clay’s writings are archived at www.shirky.com, and he also maintains a blog on his book at www.herecomeseverybody.org.