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Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

Clay Shirky

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Clay Shirky
Age: 61
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
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Columbia
Missouri
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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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We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
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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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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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Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.
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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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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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If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
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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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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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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
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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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We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
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The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
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There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.
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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
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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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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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