Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia.
Co-founder of Wikipedia talkes about the "Wisdom of Crowds" and how this applies to Wikipedia. Also discusses some of the limitations of Wikipedia and how it is governed
Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world
TED talk on collaboration and participatory culture via the idea of generosity of the general public. Also covers the idea of Communal vs Civic value of the things we as volunteers put our time into contributing to.
Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea
TED talk on American Legislation, which if passed, could change the way we share information, having negative effects on social media sites such as wikipedia, twitter, facebook etc
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