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There is no news industry.
Clay Shirky
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Clay Shirky
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Columbia
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Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
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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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Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
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Collaboration is not an absolute good.
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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
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Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
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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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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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Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'
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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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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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When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
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Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
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There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
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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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Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
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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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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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