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
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.
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.
thinking feelings
We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
thinking important world
Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.
thinking years interesting
More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.
thinking revolution admitting
It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.
thinking gym-rats facts
Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.
thinking years ideas
It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.
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
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...