2 month ago
Linkorama : Edge 255 - Clay Shirky and Tim O'Reilly on social software, the web platform and gin
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Linkorama : The importance of pigheadedness - But we also need to recognise that the biggest speed bump in social software projects is invariably going to be the social, not the software. The technology is improving every month, mainly because it's being developed by small, nimble vendors who use the
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6 month ago
philgyford : 2.0 Expo 2008: Clay Shirky - Or watch Clay give that "how do they find the time?" talk in person on this video. Worth it; he's an awesome speaker. (via Daring Fireballl)
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky's speech at Web2expo
Andy Baio : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - transcript of Clay Shirky's excellent keynote from the Web 2.0 Expo; watch it instead [via]
philgyford : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - Clay on the answer to "where do they [gamers, Wikipedias, bloggers, etc.] find the time?" By watching less TV. Great stuff.
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6 month ago
Rod Begbie : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky's talk from web2expo, which was by far the best of the keynotes. "Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat." #
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Social Software: It's Not New, And It Includes e-Mail... - If we fail to acknowledge the lineage of social software in terms of its past (e.g., e-mail), present (e.g., blogs, wikis) and future - then we ignore many of the lessons learned along the way and we introduce the chance that we will repeat past mistakes.
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6 month ago
plasticbag : A detailed exploration of the effect on authors of being on the Colbert Report - With any luck the same effect will take Clay's book higher up the Amazon rankings.
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6 month ago
nelson : Shirky v. Colbert - Weird to see someone you know try to get through the jamming
plasticbag : Clay on the Colbert Report?! I think my head just imploded with the sheer amount of squee going on right there... - Very exciting - impressed by both sets of people there. Remarkable good taste, by all accounts.
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8 month ago
joshua : The Bottom is Not Enough - on peer production
Linkorama : Bottom up demands time - The bottom-up hive mind will always take us much further than even seems possible. It keeps surprising us in this regard. Given enough time, dumb things can be smarter than we think. At that same time, the bottom-up hive mind will never take us to our end
deusx : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "I think the top-down function of editors -- to select, prune, guide, solicit, shape, and guide the results from the crowd -- is essential to excellence."
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8 month ago
philgyford : Clay Shirky + Brian Eno on the Power of Networks at ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) (Monday, March 17, 2008) - Upcoming - Shirky and Eno, together at last! Awesome bald'n'brainy action ahoy! See you there.
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14 month ago
plasticbag : Should 'UGC' as a term be replaced by 'Indigenous content'? - Clay's post on this is highly entertaining and I love the idea. I may start using it in meetings and see what kinds of eyebrows I get.
deusx : User-generated neologism: "Indigenous content". Many-to-Many: - "Indigenous Content (which is to say “Created by the natives for themselves.”)"
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17 month ago
Linkorama : The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth - The principal asset a young tech entrepreneur has is that they don’t know a lot of things.
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23 month ago
wearehugh : Social Facts, Expertise, Citizendium, and Carr. Many-to-Many: - "The measure of possible virtues of an encyclopedia now include free universal access and unlimited re-use. As a result, maintaining Britannica costs more in a world with Wikipedia than it did in a world without it"
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26 month ago
plasticbag : "Online video vault YouTube is place to see and be seen" - Medium-dull article features some less dull insights into why people do this kind of stuff in the first place from Clay Shirky, who - frankly - gets around a bit online...
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32 month ago
joshua : Moderation Strategies | Main / HomePage - Strategies of online moderation
kellan : Shirky: A Pattern Language for Moderation Strategies - I love pattern languages, and this is an excellent start. E.g. main problems with community can be addressed by MakeIdentityValuable #
plasticbag : Upsettingly - but perhaps unsurprisingly - Clay Shirky's moderation strategies wiki has been overrun by revolting porno spam - It's all spurts and holes and sluts now. Very upsetting, but probably predictable. The open wiki is pretty much a thing of the past now already.
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Social Facts - the course notes for Clay Shirky's teaching around social software and group formation - I've not had time to really interrogate this yet, but I really really need to and want to. God if only I had more time in my day to get my head around things...
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36 month ago
jkottke : On the future - Time magazine asks Moby, Malcolm Gladwell, Tim O'Reilly, Clay Shirky, David Brooks, Mark Dery, and Esther Dyson about their views on the future: religion, culture, politics, etc. Gladwell: "If I had to name a single thing that has transformed our life, I
philgyford : TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine -- The Road Ahead - A handful of celebs-in-the-weblog-world talk about the future. (via Kottke)
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38 month ago
Linkorama : Semi-structured meta-data has a posse - You could make a lot of money or win a lot of bar bets when thinking about the digital realm if you compare technologies between hard or easy, rigorous or sloppy, sophisticated or naïve, expensive or cheap, professional or amateur, and then bet on the
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47 month ago
Paul Hammond : Blackbeltjones/work: Tony Stark on Etech - I feel like I've been around those blocks quite a few times now, and I want some genuine outbreaks of the future
plasticbag : Mr Jones on Tony Stark on ETech - "The line up for 2005's Etech has been posted, and so far it seems like the same people talking about the same pet subjects. Not many 'genuine outbreaks of the future' so far." Plus, I'm a Beatle. Which is nice.
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