Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky
Clay Shirkyis an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
Clay Shirky quotes about
members profession
In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.
loss past
The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
agreement people needs
The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.
wikipedia process articles
A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
wikipedia unending collectivism
Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
used used-to-be security
It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.
technology media long
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.
technology thinking data
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.
revolution loses ifs
It's not a revolution if nobody loses
cities dating mets
Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
mean organization use
We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
cat talking singing
When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'
attention imbalance fame
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
information characteristics humans
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.