Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style

I found this simple, direct, and thought-provoking. In the last few years I have left the solid shores of Microsoft products and dipped into the sea of open-source-- PHP, Apache, MySQL-- and the communities that support these and the commercial but well-supported ActionScript. I have felt the love. :) Though I did not really think of it in those terms, and this talk gave me a new way to look at it. It also gave me new motivation to help out as best I can on those forums.

Love is great, and all, butt that was some boring bullshit right there.

why is he annoying me?

What the hell is he talking about? I thought everyone gets their Thursdays from a banana.

What great oratory skills! And that reference to the Shinto shrine, so apt and compelling.

Brilliant! Very inspiring.

I love you!!! says the guy when he comes down....I love you too man...hahahaha thats the good old hacker spirit

evanescence oh yeah

I would like to say thank you as well. This very much describes my thoughts and feelings on various internet forum/discussion groups over the past ten years i have engaged with that I have seen create and improve upon even above and beyond what would be normally produced by an institution or corporate entity, its the love element there that indirectly drives/motivates progress, support and change. It is exciting to think of the formations that will arise in the future.

This should be required watching for anyone who says that Perl or Linux aren't viable business solution platforms. Clay Shirky does a great job explaining how it all works.