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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-05-06:
"So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, 'Okay, we"re going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever.' That wasn"t her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, 'Where do people find the time?' That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, 'No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you"ve been masking for 50 years.'" -- Clay Shirky, in Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
[ http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html]
(submitted to the mailing list by Bob Bruhin)
[Yah, I failed to manage to schedule a quote connected to toiday's holiday; sorry. Happy Mother's Day!]
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It's about the efficiency of harvesting spare time. If before it took you 20 minutes to set up your tools and get to work, then a spare 10 minutes was meaningless and you might as well watch TV. But if you can click "EDIT" and be contributing to wikipedia in 20 seconds, then you can watch TV for 10 minutes while you contribute for 9 minutes and 40 seconds.