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
loss past
The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
moving past egalitarianism
Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.
past people digital-marketing
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
anyone anytime client
Anyone who has his e-mail client notify him anytime an e-mail comes in has already lost.
clinical critical exchange open technical using
We demonstrated the exchange of clinical information, by using a critical set of common, open technical standards.
jobs buttons publishing
Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
needs journalism newspapers
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.
mean identity behavior
Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity
powerful believe thinking
Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.
philosophy tools management
When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
real doing-nothing gaps
The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.
people want groups
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...
tools use bees
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.
people way pay
If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.