My 13 year old son wanted to know why I was going to San Francisco last night. I told to him I was going to see the author and social anthropologist Clay Shirky. Typically he doesn't want to know much more after that type of answer but he was curious and asked - "Why?" My son is an avid San Francisco Giants fan and loves Pablo Sandoval and Tim Lincecum. So I told  him that Clay Shirky to me is like Tim Linc ...

Clay Shirky has his finger on the pulse of the New Realformation Age. Realformation? Real-Time-Information, yes that's a word I just thought up but it's accurate. It's here, it's now and it's happening with or without you.I went on a double date with my wife and some friends last night and we documented the fun on Facebook. Before we had even arrived at the restaurant we already had 2 comments related to th ...