Blog 4

Clay Shirky
1. What are your take-aways from this video?
Technology and the internet in particular are changing the way information is gathered and distributed.  It can be helpful, silly, even evil, but it's changing the world we live in.2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
He did an effective job of telling a story and then relating to people.  He weaved together an interesting tale and then made it relevant to all the members of his audience.3. What is his/her presentation style?
He  used visual aids to help visually support his topic.  Also, when he was referring to a study conducted, he displayed a graph that allowed the study to have a far more profound impact on the audience.4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
When we said that free societies get what they celebrate it made me think about what we are celebrating in today's society.  If we have trillions of hours of free time what if all of us took up a cause?  Where would the world be if that happened?  Because of the internet, all of us in the younger generation are already part of a network.  It's just about what we are going to do in our network to be generous and make change like the founders of Ushahidi.