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Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic « Clay Shirky
Having one kind of institution do most of the reporting for most communities in the US seemed like a great idea right up until it seemed like a single point of failure. As that failure spreads, the ne... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2011/07/we-need-the-new-news-environment-to-be-chaotic/
Tags: via:packrati.us, news, shirky, media, newspapers, 104, 326, clay, clayshirky, complexity Saved by: admin at 10 Jul 2011
Having one kind of institution do most of the reporting for most communities in the US seemed like a great idea right up until it seemed like a single point of failure. As that failure spreads, the ne... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2011/07/we-need-the-new-news-environment-to-be-chaotic/
Tags: via:packrati.us, news, shirky, media, newspapers, 104, 326, clay, clayshirky, complexity Saved by: admin at 10 Jul 2011
Cleaning Up Online Conversation - HBR Agenda 2011 - Harvard Business Review
"a rhetorical tragedy of the commons is occurring in many forums. All the participants have an incentive to have good conversations, but each participant also has an incentive to get the most attentio... Read more
http://hbr.org/web/extras/hbr-agenda-2011/clay-shirky
Tags: design, socialmedia, community, conversation, via:packrati.us, identity, clayshirky, internet, shirky, comments Saved by: admin at 08 Jan 2011
"a rhetorical tragedy of the commons is occurring in many forums. All the participants have an incentive to have good conversations, but each participant also has an incentive to get the most attentio... Read more
http://hbr.org/web/extras/hbr-agenda-2011/clay-shirky
Tags: design, socialmedia, community, conversation, via:packrati.us, identity, clayshirky, internet, shirky, comments Saved by: admin at 08 Jan 2011
Wikileaks and the Long Haul « Clay Shirky
Citizens of a functioning democracy must be able to know what the state is saying and doing in our name, to engage in what Pierre Rosanvallon calls “counter-democracy”*, the democracy of citizens ... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/12/wikileaks-and-the-long-haul/
Tags: wikileaks, politics, via:packrati.us, government, democracy, law, internet, clayshirky, transparency, shirky Saved by: admin at 07 Dec 2010
Citizens of a functioning democracy must be able to know what the state is saying and doing in our name, to engage in what Pierre Rosanvallon calls “counter-democracy”*, the democracy of citizens ... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/12/wikileaks-and-the-long-haul/
Tags: wikileaks, politics, via:packrati.us, government, democracy, law, internet, clayshirky, transparency, shirky Saved by: admin at 07 Dec 2010
The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics « Clay Shirky
"One way to think of this transition is that online, the Times has stopped being a newspaper, in the sense of a generally available and omnibus account of the news of the day, broadly read in the comm... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/11/the-times-paywall-and-newsletter-economics/
Tags: paywall, media, newspapers, journalism, economics, business, via:packrati.us, newspaper, shirky, news Saved by: admin at 10 Nov 2010
"One way to think of this transition is that online, the Times has stopped being a newspaper, in the sense of a generally available and omnibus account of the news of the day, broadly read in the comm... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/11/the-times-paywall-and-newsletter-economics/
Tags: paywall, media, newspapers, journalism, economics, business, via:packrati.us, newspaper, shirky, news Saved by: admin at 10 Nov 2010
RIP Google Wave
"lowering the cost of failure --- explore multiple possibilities" #shirky RT @mymlan: RT @jyri: So long, Google Wave: http://mash.to/2l8Wo
http://mashable.com/2010/08/04/rip-google-wave/
Tags: via:packrati.us, google, googlewave, wave, web, google-wave, prop8, shirky, technology, toread Saved by: admin at 05 Aug 2010
"lowering the cost of failure --- explore multiple possibilities" #shirky RT @mymlan: RT @jyri: So long, Google Wave: http://mash.to/2l8Wo
http://mashable.com/2010/08/04/rip-google-wave/
Tags: via:packrati.us, google, googlewave, wave, web, google-wave, prop8, shirky, technology, toread Saved by: admin at 05 Aug 2010
Cognitive Surplus visualized
Cognitive Surplus visualized July 19, 2010 I was listening to writer Clay Shirky talk about cognitive surplus – the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective mind just sitting there wait... Read more
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/
Tags: infographic, cognitivesurplus, visualization, design, shirky, via:packrati.us, visualisation, wikipedia, chart, charts Saved by: admin at 20 Jul 2010
Cognitive Surplus visualized July 19, 2010 I was listening to writer Clay Shirky talk about cognitive surplus – the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective mind just sitting there wait... Read more
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/
Tags: infographic, cognitivesurplus, visualization, design, shirky, via:packrati.us, visualisation, wikipedia, chart, charts Saved by: admin at 20 Jul 2010
The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky
"When societies fail to respond to reduced circumstances through orderly downsizing, it isn’t because they don’t want to, it’s because they can’t … the whole edifice becomes a huge, interloc... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/
Tags: business, media, economics, complexity, history, shirky, innovation, change, strategy, collapse Saved by: admin at 02 Apr 2010
"When societies fail to respond to reduced circumstances through orderly downsizing, it isn’t because they don’t want to, it’s because they can’t … the whole edifice becomes a huge, interloc... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/
Tags: business, media, economics, complexity, history, shirky, innovation, change, strategy, collapse Saved by: admin at 02 Apr 2010
A quick guide to the maxims of new media | Mark Coddington
We journalism/new media nerds like to think of ourselves as being pretty open, but we can be a bit clannish at times: We close ranks to defend a few core principles, we have our own hierarchy of gurus... Read more
http://markcoddington.com/2010/01/30/a-quick-guide-to-the-maxims-of-new-media/
Tags: journalism, media, newmedia, maxims, internet, jarvis, socialmedia, shirky, linkeconomy, **** Saved by: admin at 31 Jan 2010
We journalism/new media nerds like to think of ourselves as being pretty open, but we can be a bit clannish at times: We close ranks to defend a few core principles, we have our own hierarchy of gurus... Read more
http://markcoddington.com/2010/01/30/a-quick-guide-to-the-maxims-of-new-media/
Tags: journalism, media, newmedia, maxims, internet, jarvis, socialmedia, shirky, linkeconomy, **** Saved by: admin at 31 Jan 2010
Why Twitter Will Endure - NYTimes.com
I can remember when I first thought seriously about Twitter. Last March, I was at the SXSW conference, a conclave in Austin, Tex., where technology, media and music are mashed up and re-imagined, and,... Read more
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/weekinreview/03carr.html?src=tp&pagewanted=all
Tags: twitter, media, nytimes, technology, article, communication, internet, web, shirky, socialmedia Saved by: admin at 03 Jan 2010
I can remember when I first thought seriously about Twitter. Last March, I was at the SXSW conference, a conclave in Austin, Tex., where technology, media and music are mashed up and re-imagined, and,... Read more
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/weekinreview/03carr.html?src=tp&pagewanted=all
Tags: twitter, media, nytimes, technology, article, communication, internet, web, shirky, socialmedia Saved by: admin at 03 Jan 2010
A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority « Clay Shirky
Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources without a human standing beside the result. This model has... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/11/a-speculative-post-on-the-idea-of-algorithmic-authority/
Tags: authority, shirky, algorithmic, community, clayshirky, trust, algorithm, identity, relevance, research Saved by: admin at 16 Nov 2009
Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources without a human standing beside the result. This model has... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/11/a-speculative-post-on-the-idea-of-algorithmic-authority/
Tags: authority, shirky, algorithmic, community, clayshirky, trust, algorithm, identity, relevance, research Saved by: admin at 16 Nov 2009