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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
Academic
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Technology Evangelist
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Columbia
Missouri
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If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
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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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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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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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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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Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
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We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
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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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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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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 historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.
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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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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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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
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Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.
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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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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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[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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