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
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weekend creating years
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.
thinking years interesting
More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.
years erotic sacred
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.
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
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.
people community information
Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.