What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on… — Clay Shirky Amount Copy Share Image
“[R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participation.” — Clay Shirky Motivation Copy Share Image
“Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.” — Clay Shirky Media Copy Share Image
Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the… — Clay Shirky Buttons Copy Share Image
A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing. — Clay Shirky Cost 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 Accident 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 About Copy Share Image
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It… — Clay Shirky Available Copy Share Image
“The Dean campaign had accidentally created a movement for a passionate few rather than a vote-getting operation.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism...When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers' to 'save society,' the imperative changes… — Clay Shirky Attention Copy Share Image
“The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for… — Clay Shirky Business Copy Share Image
“Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are… — Clay Shirky Organization Copy Share Image
I removed 'cyberspace' from my vernacular. The idea, which I grew up with, of going into a place separate from the real… — Clay Shirky Cyberspace Copy Share Image
What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain." — Clay Shirky Acceptable 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 Certain Copy Share Image
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference… — Clay Shirky Ads Copy Share Image
Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community. — Clay Shirky Come up Copy Share Image
Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than… — Clay Shirky Behavior Copy Share Image
“[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all… — Clay Shirky Internet Copy Share Image
Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse. — Clay Shirky Cities Copy Share Image
We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia.… — Clay Shirky Big things Copy Share Image
“We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken than what will replace it.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. — Clay Shirky Boring Copy Share Image
