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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.

Clay Shirky

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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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