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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Academic
Scientist
Technology Evangelist
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Columbia
Missouri
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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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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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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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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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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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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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We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
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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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A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
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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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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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[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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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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Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
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Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
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If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
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