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There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

Clay Shirky

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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
Writer
Columbia
Missouri
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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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Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
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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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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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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 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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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
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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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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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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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Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
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Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
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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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The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
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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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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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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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The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
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