Clay Shirky

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• Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow on the future of the bookstore

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  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 ...
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• Bookstore futures from Shirky and Doctorow

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 618
  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 ...
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• Clay Shirky: ‘a bad thing is going to happen’ to journalism

  
  Christopher Wink — Authority: 119
  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, [...]
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• Clay Shirky explains the Impact of Social Media

  
  Media Transparent — Authority: 116
  Clay Shirky explains the impact of social media, societal change and where things are headed. He talks like his books (h/t David Cohn )
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• Clay Shirky in Journalism Things Will Get Weirder

  
  PJNet — Authority: 110
  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 ...
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• Media madness #1 – their lies and ignorance make us stupid

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 534
  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 ...
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• Re-Value Content (And Redefine Publishing)

  
  design mind - business. technology. design. — Authority: 525
  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 ...
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• Spark 93 – November 29 & December 1, 2009

  
  CBC: Spark Plus — Authority: 121
  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 ...
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• New Publishing/Old Publishing

  
  GeekMedia — Authority: 119
  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 ...
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• Full Interview: Clay Shirky

  
  CBC: Spark Plus — Authority: 121
  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 ...
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• Happy Turkey Day! Throw that blog a bone?

  
  The Wild Wild East Dailies — Authority: 126
  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 ...
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• Increase Your Blog Traffic: Top 5 Book Recs

  
  Green Inventions Central — Authority: 105
  "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." ...
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• Speculation on Links, Traffic, and Authority

  
  Networked News — Authority: 388
  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 ...
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• No more bookshops? Good riddance.

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Technology Blog — Authority: 584
  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 ...
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• Idea Mapping Experiment at Luther College [Part 5] – Idea Maps #202-203

  
  Idea Mapping — Authority: 116
  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 ...
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• Authority derived from some formula will be increasingly important in the future

  
  Closer To The Ideal — Authority: 467
  Clay Shirky is writing about algorithmic authority . Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing beside the result saying “Trust this because you trust me.” This model of authority ...
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• Clay Shirky is brilliant and American – hence often delusionally flattering

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 534
  America’s broken Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action loop (aka OODA loop; see Wikipedia for details) affects us all, distorting our ability to see even simple things.  It’s most clearly seen in experts writing about their own fields.  Today’s example is Clay Shirky, one of America’s top writers about ...
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• Arts Roundup: Indie Bookstores Need Better Rocking Chairs

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 144
  Morning, y’all! Above is a lil bit of Mountain Goats/Aesop Rock to start your day. Clay Shirky , new media prognosticator extraordinaire,  turns his attention to bookstores , and his analysis and conclusions hit awfully close to home. Ask the average District dandy for a list of retail complaints, and the ...
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• Link wrap: geo-Twitter, Shirky, Foursquare

  
  The Evolving Newsroom — Authority: 457
  Twitter turns on its Geolocation API From RWW this week came a post about Twitter turning on its Geolocation API , which means Twitter users can choose whether to indicate where they are when they tweet. RWW imagines some interesting apps being built around this function. They suggest, for example, an app that ...
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• Algorithmic Authority and Why it Can’t be Trusted

  
  Naked PR Blog — Authority: 93
  This post is in response to Frank Pasquale’s “ Assessing Algorithmic Authority ” which was in turn in response to Clay Shirky’s “ A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority .” I attempted to leave this in comment form on Frank’s post, but kept getting errors (I hate when that happens), so ...
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