Clay Shirky

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• Speculation on Links, Traffic, and Authority

  
  Networked News — Authority: 92
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Authority derived from some formula will be increasingly important in the future

  
  Closer To The Ideal — Authority: 470
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Clay Shirky is brilliant and American – hence often delusionally flattering

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 535
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Arts Roundup: Indie Bookstores Need Better Rocking Chairs

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Link wrap: geo-Twitter, Shirky, Foursquare

  
  The Evolving Newsroom — Authority: 412
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Algorithmic Authority and Why it Can’t be Trusted

  
  Naked PR Blog — Authority: 92
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Ignite NYC Brings Big Ideas To Small Time Slots

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 437
  NYConvergence ORIGINAL by: Amy Berryhill Ignite NYC hosted a varied set of presenters last night, each of whom got the mic for five minutes to inspire the crowd with a rant, rave or random thought. The first hour brought all three. Lee Sean Hepnova started the evening off with a rant. "A specter is ...
  1 week ago

• Clay Shirky on trust, Web, algorithms, authority.

  
  Paolo blog: Ramblings on Web2.0, Trust, Reputation, Recommender Systems, Social Software, Free Software, ICT4D and much more — Authority: 118
  An insightful essay by Clay Shirky on trust, Web, algorithms, authority . Clay Shirky is able to put in few clear words what I’ve been trying to tell for years . Khotyn is a small town in Moldova. That is a piece of information about Eastern European geography, and one that could be right or could be wrong. ...
  1 week ago

• Video: Clay Shirky on Twitter and the digital media revolution

  
  Freelance Unbound — Authority: 125
  This video from GRITtv featuring new media heavy-hitter Clay Shirky is worth checking out. Lots of Twitter boosting – which I know some journalists will like ( though not all ). And some insight into why and when such technology becomes important. Plus the whole “what is the future of journalism” meme. Things ...
  2 weeks ago

• Information Serendipity In Different Mediums

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 117
  Credit: David Weekly [ CC BY ] Ive been meaning to comment on Mathew Ingrams defence of newspapers and serendipity . Clay Shirky has been talking about the bundling that occurs in newspapers as a mere accident of print, something that was only necessary given the constraints of paper, but doesnt make sense ...
  2 weeks ago

• Clay Shirky Interview on The Impact of Social Media

  
  The Wardman Wire — Authority: 576
  Clay Shirky is one of the most perceptive commentators on the evolution, and impact, of the Internet. Here he gives an interview to GRITtv’s Laura Flanders. Clay Shirky is one of the most perceptive commentators on the evolution, and impact, of the Internet.Here he gives an interview to GRITtv’s Laura ...
  2 weeks ago

• Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history

  
  MEDIA 2.0 Brandhacker Blog — Authority: 123
  
  2 weeks ago

• Two Takes On The Future of Media: Rubert Murdoch and Clay Shirky

  
  Peter Bihr on Social Media, Web 2.0 & Digital Life [www.thewavingcat.com] — Authority: 456
  Today I happened upon these two videos in which two experts share their take on (among many other things) the future of the media. The two experts are old-school media magnate Rupert Murdoch , often called one of the most influential people in the media industry; and NYU professor Clay Shirky , who I think is one of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Clay Shirky on Copyrights, Prohibition and Access to Knowledge.

  
  Clarity & Chaos — Authority: 117
  In an interesting interview with GRITtv , Clay Shirky talks twitter, technology, access to knowledge, journalism - and compares copyright law to the prohibition. (via netzpolitik )
  3 weeks ago

• Wise Words from Clay Shirky

  
  Mark Evans Tech — Authority: 526
  If you’re at all interested in the future of newspapers and journalism, check out this GRIT TV interview with Clay Shirky. There is lots of good material here, including Shirky’s contention that we shouldn’t be focused on savings newspapers but, instead, we need to ask whether we can save journalism. GRITtv: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Clay Shirky talks a lot of sense

  
  raxraxrax.com — Authority: 431
  Here’s a great interview with Clay Shirky by GRITtv’s Laura Flanders : Clay Shirky , professor in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, is at the forefront of thought and discussion on the future of the Internet and communication technology. From the “Twitter revolution” in Iran ...
  3 weeks ago

• Clay Shirky on the social media revolution

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 512
  Thanks to Karthika Muthukumaraswamy on the Online Journalism Blog
  3 weeks ago

• Clay Shirky on Twitter and the social media revolution

  
  Online Journalism Blog — Authority: 609
  Here’s a great interview with Clay Shirky by GRITtv’s Laura Flanders. Clay Shirky talks about the power of digital networking, and how social media  can do everything from cause revolutions to create whole new political parties when done right. The simplicity of Twitter, of course, is its genius. It has ...
  3 weeks ago

• Here Comes Everybody

  
  Digital Sextant — Authority: 130
  Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizationsby Clay ShirkyMy Writing for New Media class finished reading this last week, so I thought I’d post a few thoughts.  Shirky’s book makes a strong argument for ways to understand how the new digital environment shifts how we behave and how we ...
  3 weeks ago

• Now Online - “Us Now” Documentary On Participatory Media

  
  Insights Qualitativos 2.0 — Authority: 131
  Featuring Don Tapscott (Wikinomics) and Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody) - the documentary on how Participatory Media is shaking up banking, football, motherhood, and democracy is now online. Inspiring stuff… Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo . via http://www.clickadvisor.com
  3 weeks ago

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