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  • This is what I sound like


    Creative Is Not A DepartmentAuthority Authority: 401
    I had the pleasure yesterday of joining Scott Hoffman on his Cliqology podcast to talk about all the madness around Digital Strangelove , and the ideas contained in it. We talk about the presentation itself, the response it received, and how some of the ideas contained within are going to play out over the next ...
    2 days ago
  • Where Did the Web Touch You? [Things We Actually Like]


    GawkerAuthority Authority: 865
    Online artist Casetteboy created this funny/brilliant mashup of experts explaining "the Web." In short, the global computer network is an anti-social creep that "nailed some feces to the door,"...
    3 days ago
  • Where Did the Web Touch You?


    Gawker: valleywagAuthority Authority: 640
    Online artist Casetteboy created this funny/brilliant mashup of experts explaining "the Web." In short, the global computer network is an anti-social creep that "nailed some feces to the door," according actor Stephen Fry, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and other digerati. Our favorite fake answer is tech investor ...
    3 days ago
  • Guestpost – Google: What risks has Real Time Search wrought?


    Hitch: Connecting Marketing InnovatorsAuthority Authority: 111
    I think I first heard Charlene Li say it at last year’s SXSWi in Austin:   Web search will continue to move toward real time. Today, Google made it a reality with the announcement of Real Time Search . Just one of the many tectonic shifts continuing to happen in communications.   Everything is ...
    3 days ago
  • Strategies for thesis completion: Not synthetic happiness


    BlogsAuthority Authority: 161
    As Clay Shirky has said about Web 2.0, "here comes everybody," and with that we get great conversation, with real listening. My blog entry today includes 2 readers responses to my entry about "a downside to synthetic happiness" and my attempt to clarify the concept further. I begin with the shortest entry written by a ...
    6 days ago
  • Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow on the future of the bookstore


    TeleRead: Bring the E-Books HomeAuthority Authority: 634
    Clay Shirky posts on his blog about the recent open letter from the American Booksellers Association to the Justice Department, asking them to investigate Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target for pricing best-sellers below $10. (Amazon’s $9.99 e-books in particular are singled out for comment.) The ABA believes that ...
    1 week ago
  • Bookstore futures from Shirky and Doctorow


    FuturismicAuthority Authority: 603
    Continuing the increasingly ubiquitous discussion of the future of bookstores (in the wake of Borders in the UK going into receivership ), two heavyweight thinkers have thrown their opinions out into the ring in the last few days. First of all, Clay Shirky, who notes that there are three basic groups of people ...
    1 week ago
  • Clay Shirky: ‘a bad thing is going to happen’ to journalism


    Christopher WinkAuthority Authority: 116
    I’m not one for posting video clips on this site, nor am I about doing so more than two months late.But then, by way of the Nieman Journalism Lab, I only now came across a lecture New York University new media professor and internet intellectual Clay Shirky gave to the Shorenstein Center on the Press, [...]
    1 week ago
  • Clay Shirky explains the Impact of Social Media


    Media TransparentAuthority Authority: 117
    Clay Shirky explains the impact of social media, societal change and where things are headed. He talks like his books (h/t David Cohn )
    1 week ago
  • Clay Shirky in Journalism Things Will Get Weirder


    PJNetAuthority Authority: 109
    Clay Shirky’s prognostication for the future of journalism: “Things are going to get weirder before they get saner.” And he adds: “In real revolutions things get worse before they get better. .. One of the bad things I think is going to happen is, I think civic corruption is just going to rise for ...
    1 week ago
  • Media madness #1 – their lies and ignorance make us stupid


    Fabius MaximusAuthority Authority: 473
    Critics (like me) have railed about the flaws of the old media.  Media experts, such as Clay Shirky, have warned that the new news media might be worse.  Today we look at evidence supporting their fears.Here we see the essence of making us stupid Internet websites, 21st century propaganda machines.  It’s not ...
    1 week ago
  • Re-Value Content (And Redefine Publishing)


    design mind - business. technology. design.Authority Authority: 535
    Should content be free or should readers have to pay for what they read and see and listen to? This question has been asked more frequently over the past two months as Steven Brill, the founder of Journalism Online and a proponent of the idea that not all content should be free, has been engaging audiences around the ...
    1 week ago
  • Spark 93 – November 29 & December 1, 2009


    CBC: Spark PlusAuthority Authority: 120
    On this episode of Spark: Too much information, digital pack rats, and Wikipedia’s digital blind spots. Click to listen (runs 54:00): Download audio file (spark_20091129_23715.mp3) Gabriella Coleman explains why ebook piracy may be poised to shake up the publishing business ( full interview ) Tim Pridie and ...
    2 weeks ago
  • New Publishing/Old Publishing


    GeekMediaAuthority Authority: 116
    So i wrote a few of these posts last year, basically to highlight how in niche areas (in most cases advertising/media/marketing related) non-traditional/non-professional content was not just more nimble and dynamic than traditional publishers, but also read by more people. Last weeks announcement that Media Week ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Full Interview: Clay Shirky


    CBC: Spark PlusAuthority Authority: 120
    Have you ever played around with a gadget or application, only to discover it’s absolutely perfect for something different from its original design? This kind of inventiveness, or playfulness, happens all the time in our digital environment, but it signals a major shift in the relationship between the inventor or ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Happy Turkey Day! Throw that blog a bone?


    The Wild Wild East DailiesAuthority Authority: 123
    Ahh, its Thankgiving Day in America and youre catching up on your blog reading. Good for you. And football? Nice. Im hungry. And so maybe are thousands or maybe millions of bloggers around the world. And why not? This is the medium thats putting thousands of proper journalists out of work. Why the hell should anybody ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Increase Your Blog Traffic: Top 5 Book Recs


    Green Inventions CentralAuthority Authority: 404
    "Hes a great writer. Smart. He should have a wider blog reach. Any ideas?" This is the kind of question Ive been asked many times over. I often write long emails in response. Because increasing blog traffic isnt simple. Okay, its not hard either, for the blogger who is evocative, funny, or some kind of "expert." ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Speculation on Links, Traffic, and Authority


    Networked NewsAuthority Authority: 386
    We can say this: traffic flows along links that we click. For a few years—before google—we could even say this: a link is not a link until we click it. But now that is wrong because google made links really something else—meaningful signals, not just infrastructure. Links have a deeply important role in ...
    2 weeks ago
  • No more bookshops? Good riddance.


    Telegraph.co.uk Technology BlogAuthority Authority: 571
    As I write this, Books, Etc. is in the final throes of a closing down sale. Its parent company Borders has stopped taking online orders, giving weight to suspicions that the company might be on the brink of administration.It’s an interesting backdrop against which to read Clay Shirky’s latest post. Shirky is known ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Idea Mapping Experiment at Luther College [Part 5] – Idea Maps #202-203


    Idea MappingAuthority Authority: 117
    These Idea Maps are the 9th and 10th examples in this year’s experiment following students at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. The October 23, 2008 posting first introduced this series and the October 28, 2009 post put this experiment in context. Read those postings for background. Today’s idea mapping ...
    2 weeks ago

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