Again, credit to Shaun at Microblogging.com on sending me notice of this awesome video.

The speaker/lecturer is in the video is,  Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody. I’ll admit, I do have the book but have yet to read it.

This is a superb view of how something like Twitter became so successful in what we may deem as “third world” countries like Kenya or rural China. It is odd to think of this as almost reverse technology – taking for granted when others use the same tool out of necessity.

This is a very, very good audio and video presentation.

How Cellphones, Twitter, Facebook Can Make History

I am late to the game, per se, in getting on Twitter, Facebook, and social media/networking modality. Yet, I can see and have my own data to measure just how successful my endeavors have been since getting on Twitter. Facebook remains to be seen as I have been on a grand total of, egad, three days now.