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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
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There is no news industry.
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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.
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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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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?'
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
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A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
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Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
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The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.
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So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.
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Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
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The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.
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Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.
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The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
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Society is not just the product of its individual members it is also the product of its constituent groups.
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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
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