Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is...… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one. — 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
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that's an important signal, and one we… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. — 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
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