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Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
Clay Shirky
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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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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.
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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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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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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
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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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We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
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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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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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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
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Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
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If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
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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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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
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To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.
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One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.
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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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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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Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.
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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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