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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

Clay Shirky

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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
Writer
Columbia
Missouri
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Motivation
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Opportunity

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We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
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If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
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Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'
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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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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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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.
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Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
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Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
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When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
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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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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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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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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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Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.
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[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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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.
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If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.
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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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