“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“The low cost of aggregating information also allowed the formalization of sharing [...].” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
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… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
