[video] Clay Shirky, "Here Comes Everybody" (runtime: 42:12)
See and hear Clay Shirky discuss elements of his latest text "Here Comes Everybody: How Digital Networks Transform Our Ability to Gather and Cooperate." Regarding his text, here's how Cory Doctrow http://craphound.com/bio.php describes it on BoingBoing:

"Clay unpicks what has made some "social" Internet media into something utterly transformative, while other attempts have fizzled or fallen to griefers and vandals. Clay picks perfect anecdotes to vividly illustrate his points, then shows the larger truth behind them."

[video] Howard Rheingold at TED
Here Howard delivers a brief overview of collaboration, participatory media and collective action with his usual sense of style and panache at TED.

[video] Henry Giroux: Culture, Politics & Pedagogy: A Conversation w/ Henry Giroux
Henry talks about the work of Paulo Freire and the importance of theory, reflection, and NCLB. Too, too brief.

[video] danah boyd on MyFriends, MySpace
Here danah speaks about her research on social networks. She provides a great historical context to the various sites that have come and gone from the center of Internet activity, as well as some insight into what brought about their successes and failures. 

[video] Billy Collins: Forgetfulness
Former US Poet Laureate reads his poem "Forgetfulness" with animation by Julian Grey of Headgear. Mixed Media Animation + Poetry = another reason I heart YouTube.

Comic for bdieu: Bee from The Perry Bible Fellowship