Joshua Glinert, a participant in the London Net Tuesday group, received a free copy of Clay Shirky's new paperback edition of "Here Comes Everybody" for his participation at Clay's London presentation in February.  He is working on a start-up project, Civic Agora, which will be a platform for collaborative deliberation and problem-solving.  Below is his thoughtful review and conversation starter from "Here Comes Everybody." Enjoy!

NetSquared currently has 3 open Challenges, calling for innovators and change makers around the world to submit ideas for Web and mobile-based technologies for social change.  I recently sat down with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, and asked what he thought about the impact of the social web on innovation. 

Check out his answer (video) and Challenges you can dive into today!

In such a me-manner, I began editing and paring down another entry from my UCC Social Media Case Study and I ended up with more text than I began with. The following, an address of "social media strategy/implementation" versus engineering, the importance of reading books, talking with people and fertilizing "mind gardens," and the relevance of organizers and intellectuals published before 2000, was a tangental thought that best stands alone.