Clay Shirky Quotes - Page 4

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• There is no news industry.

  Clay Shirky

  News, Industry

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• Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

  Clay Shirky

  Cities, Dating, Mets

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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.

  Clay Shirky

  Wish, Groups, Tools

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• What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.

  Clay Shirky

  Technology, Thinking, Data

  "Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags". shirky.com. Spring, 2005.

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• Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

  Clay Shirky

  Wikipedia, Unending, Collectivism

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• The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

  Clay Shirky

  Loss, Past

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• The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

  Clay Shirky

  Challenges, Done, Internet

  "Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform - the numbers don't add up'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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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.

  Clay Shirky

  Lying, Together We Can, Environmental

  "A Wiki for the Planet: Clay Shirky on Open Source Environmentalism" by Alexis Madrigal, www.wired.com. August 20, 2008.

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• The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

  Clay Shirky

  Media, Goal, Quality

  Clay Shirky (2010). “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators”, p.33, Penguin

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• The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

  Clay Shirky

  Tools, Use, Bees

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• Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

  Clay Shirky

  Attention, Imbalance, Fame

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• Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

  Clay Shirky

  Thinking, Important, Email

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• We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

  Clay Shirky

  Moving, Collaboration, Cooperation

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• In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

  Clay Shirky

  Members, Profession

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.54, Penguin UK

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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.

  Clay Shirky

  Gorillas, Life Is, Social

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

  Clay Shirky

  Thinking, Admitting, Revolution

  "Here Comes Clay Shirky". Interview with Parul Sehgal, www.publishersweekly.com. June 21, 2010.

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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.

  Clay Shirky

  Self, Giving, Pages

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