A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product. Clay Shirky More Quotes by Clay Shirky More Quotes From Clay Shirky You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public. Clay Shirky thoughtsyoulibraryinternet One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media. Clay Shirky problemsmedialanguagepeople I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed. Clay Shirky everyonei-amwhotalent The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it's democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public's mind. Clay Shirky thinkpowermindpeople The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is... what will it take to get people to act in concert? There isn't any additive solution to the problem. It will be both governmental and social because that's the scale of the problem. Clay Shirky solutionwillproblempeople
