“I was really impressed with Clay Shirky's efforts this time around promoting Cognitive Surplus. He ended up talking in a lot of places, to a lot of people, and I ended up instapapering and reading a lot of these interviews. But I never got the sense of hearing too much of the same stuff, indeed he almost seemed to be saving up some nuggets for each occasion. I bookmarked new thoughts from many of those interviews. I think that's a sign of a particular kind of writer/thinker - someone who's immersed in a field or area of thought and has taken time to put a sample of it in a book. It means by the time they get round to talking about it, new stuff has occurred to them, and they can genuinely reflect on the questions they've been given and come up with interesting answers. Versus the kind of writer who's just managed to get enough stuff together to fill the book and has only got that material to repeat.” - × × ×