Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Clay Shirky's Viewpoints are Overrated (07 Aug 2005) And hey, just for reading this far, here are two other places where Clay is demonstrably, well, if not wrong, misguided. In his discussion of Dresden and East Germany, he states, "It is much easier for a country to disappear than for a city to disappear, so when you're saying that the small thing is contained by the large thing, you're actually mixing radically different kinds of entities." Um. The former cities of Venice, Malibu, Hollywood, Brooklyn and others that have been swallowed up by neighboring growing cities might beg to differ. Countries and cities are similarly fictions (or not). Frankly, I don't know why he brings up this "example" in the first place. Article URL: http://www.peterme.com/archives/000558.html Read 25 more articles from By Special Request sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: A Bluetooth-enabled Digital Picture Frame     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy