Clay Shirky said some interesting things at last night’s New York Tech Meetup
• We ought to question whether we have to just accept the basic tradeoff between scale and specificity … do the most popular discussions/ items / art / communication etc. have to reflect the lowest common denominator?Is there a way to change our reality so we can tap into the value of the people we’re more directly connected to?
• Is there a way of accessing the serendipity link … so we can find things that are more relevant than random, but more surprising than just asking your friends (a way to tap the third & fourth wave of your social networks … friends of friends of friends who, unassisted, you’d normally never encounter or meet). He phrased this as a social network of one million … your one million closest friends. More targeted than everybody, less obvious than your friends.
• Narcissism has never been a bad business model.
