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Creating a hit is largely a matter of random chance
Closer To The Ideal —
Authority: 130
I’ve spent the last 10 years working as a computer programmer, but now that Darren Hoyt and I are trying to launch WP Questions I find myself reading a lot more about marketing. I very much like this bit in Fast Company, where Duncan Watts argues that which songs emerge as hits is a largely random process : ...5 days ago -
Mobile Micropayments: Forcing Me to Reconsider the Conventional Wisdom
Technology Liberation Front —
Authority: 526
I’ve always generally agreed with the conventional wisdom about micropayments as a method of funding online content or services: Namely, they won’t work. Clay Shirky , Tim Lee , and many others have made the case that micropayments face numerous obstacles to widespread adoption. The primary issue seems to be ...1 week ago -
The Wisdom of Clay Shirky, on Video
The Big Money —
Authority: 682
Its always a treat to talk to Clay Shirky, who teaches interactive telecommunications at New York University and is the author of the excellent book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations . I had the privilege of interviewing Shirky on a wide variety of subjects , as part of a video ...1 week ago -
Traditional Media vs Social Media: outlook for 2010!
Media'ZBiz! —
Authority: 111
We’re in a new age of realtime information. Earthquakes, the San Diego fires, the shootings in Mumbai, the situation in Iran, and even Michael Jackson’s death. The realtime web beat the mainstream media easily to each of these stories. But, will this disparity increase going forward? In 2008, the terrorist ...1 week ago -
Clay Shirky telling it like it is. You need to listen to this guy
blending the mix —
Authority: 112
Clay Shirky is one of those guys that you might never have heard of before, but will never forget once you have heard him speak. For the uninitiated, Clay is one of the world’s most respected commentators on the societal changes that are taking place on the web today. He is a writer, consultant and teacher on ...1 week ago -
How To Disappear Completely: Part I
The Nervous Breakdown —
Authority: 589
This past summer one of the richest and most famous people on the planet committed Facebook suicide. “It was just way too much trouble, so I gave it up,” said Bill Gates at an event in New Delhi. Gates deactivated his account upon being inundated with more than 10,000 friend requests. He then expressed his [...]2 weeks ago -
The net advantage | Prospect Magazine [del.icio.us]
Adrian Monck —
Authority: 116
Another Shirky sweeping generalization: "Insurrections, even pro-democracy insurrections, always begin as minority affairs, driven by a small, young, and well-educated population before they expand more widely."2 weeks ago -
This is what I sound like
Creative Is Not A Department —
Authority: 91
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Where Did the Web Touch You? [Things We Actually Like]
Gawker —
Authority: 863
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 weeks ago -
Where Did the Web Touch You?
Gawker: valleywag —
Authority: 613
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 weeks ago -
Guestpost – Google: What risks has Real Time Search wrought?
Hitch: Connecting Marketing Innovators —
Authority: 116
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 weeks ago -
Strategies for thesis completion: Not synthetic happiness
Blogs —
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow on the future of the bookstore
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
Authority: 657
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 ...4 weeks ago -
Bookstore futures from Shirky and Doctorow
Futurismic —
Authority: 431
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 ...4 weeks ago -
Clay Shirky: ‘a bad thing is going to happen’ to journalism
Christopher Wink —
Authority: 114
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, [...]4 weeks ago -
Clay Shirky explains the Impact of Social Media
Media Transparent —
Authority: 114
Clay Shirky explains the impact of social media, societal change and where things are headed. He talks like his books (h/t David Cohn )4 weeks ago -
Clay Shirky in Journalism Things Will Get Weirder
PJNet —
Authority: 106
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 ...4 weeks ago -
Media madness #1 – their lies and ignorance make us stupid
Fabius Maximus —
Authority: 433
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 ...4 weeks ago -
Re-Value Content (And Redefine Publishing)
design mind - business. technology. design. —
Authority: 531
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 ...4 weeks ago -
Spark 93 – November 29 & December 1, 2009
CBC: Spark Plus —
Authority: 116
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 ...4 weeks ago
