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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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We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
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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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If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
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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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There is no news industry.
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The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
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Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
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We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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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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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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Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
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A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
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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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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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When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
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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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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
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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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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
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