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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
Scientist
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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There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
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Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
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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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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
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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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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
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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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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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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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One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.
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A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
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The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
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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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We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
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There is no news industry.
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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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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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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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