Clay Shirky joins us this week at TPMCafe Book Club to talk about his new book, Here Comes Everybody. He opens the conversation by considering a couple of questions about social software– and social status on the web. Are new ways to acquire social status (say, by achieving a level 75 Night Elf Roghe in World of Warcraft) a net gain, or a net loss?
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