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Heard on Radio 4 this morning: "The market hates uncertainty." While most analysts and investment bankers would agree this is a truism, it is no doubt a problematic statement when it becomes clear that the idea of perfect market systems operating in a vacuum of efficiency and equilibirum is inherently false.

Heard on Radio 4 this morning: "The market hates uncertainty." While most analysts and investment bankers would agree this is a truism, it is no doubt a problematic statement when it becomes clear that the idea of perfect market systems operating in a vacuum of efficiency and equilibirum is inherently false.

Another day, another part of my interview (the fourth) with Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody). And today's topic is education. Clay rates the question (which came from Rebecca Caroe via twitter) as one of THE toughest and most important facing our generation.

I've blogged before about the current revolution in media in general and news in particular. So I was amused by Joe Zefran's comments at the EU seminar on activist blogging yesterday that RTE has a twitter feed going: but it isn't theirs! Joe is RTE's head of internet development, and gave a fascinating insight into the national broadcaster's plans for the net and beyond.

Thinking back on it, I’m not sure I really learned anything new - not in terms of ideas nor anecdotes - from Here Comes Everybody. And yet I’ll probably end up buying copies for both sets of my grandparents and anyone else I care about who wants to know why it is that I do what I do.

Thinking back on it, I’m not sure I really learned anything new - not in terms of ideas nor anecdotes - from Here Comes Everybody. And yet I’ll probably end up buying copies for both sets of my grandparents and anyone else I care about who wants to know why it is that I do what I do.

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Yesterday I wrote the introduction to this post, which ended up being about as long as the next bit that contained the important stuff I wanted to say, so I split it up. Feel free to start yesterday, then continue on below, which is about the whole mess of misunderstanding over networks that are not called Emergent.

Today I'm pleased to share part III of my interview with Here Comes Everybody author Clay Shirky (recorded in London on September 30 at the offices of Incisive Media). It is part of a 35min interview.

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