Cognitive Surplus

Excellent talk from Clay Shirky at the recent Web 2.0 Expo  (and in many ways relevant to the post below). I like his concept of the ‘cognitive surplus’ from which social and collaborative ideas will gain share. 16 minutes well spent, if only to hear the great example he uses of the Pluto page on Wikipedia .

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