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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
Failure
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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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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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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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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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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
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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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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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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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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
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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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Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
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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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The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
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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 someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
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We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
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The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
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