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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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Columbia
Missouri
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We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
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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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We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
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There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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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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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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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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We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
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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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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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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
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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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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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A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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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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A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
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