A week or two ago I missed Mr Shirky talk about Cognitive Surplus, because a train was delayed. Inside I sobbed violently, but got over it okay. Essentially it’s “the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective mind just sitting there waiting, wanting, to be harnessed.”

He has a similar sort of talk up on Ted, above. (I really have to stop posting TED talks up here.) I like it though, because I can sit happily and reflect on the number of projects like Bored of Brighton taking place around the world to help people. And I like shiny Clay Shirky because a great deal of the second year of my degree focused on his work, and he writes about blogging nicely. All this makes me happy.

Today, the ever-wonderful Information is Beautiful have created a visualisation: US adults watching TV vs. the creation of Wikipedia. “A shocking proportion,” he says, but then.. we do multitask, no?