Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community. Clay Shirky More Quotes by Clay Shirky More Quotes From Clay Shirky Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen. Clay Shirky communicationtechnologyprofound A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product. Clay Shirky wikipediaarticlesprocess Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse. Clay Shirky datingmetscities We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love. Clay Shirky wikipediadoneworld It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public. Clay Shirky securitycomputerused The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet. Clay Shirky mediatechnologylong Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads. Clay Shirky weekendyearsideas It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity. Clay Shirky expansiongenerationshistorical The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not? Clay Shirky why-notmassinternet A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing. Clay Shirky effortcostsuccessful Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption. Clay Shirky gym-ratstasksthinking The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work. Clay Shirky methodwaterfallsparty Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it. Clay Shirky fuzzytryingway To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear. Clay Shirky groupstoolswish When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.' Clay Shirky cell-phonephonescells There is no news industry. Clay Shirky newsindustry It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses. Clay Shirky admittingrevolutionthinking The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge. Clay Shirky internetdonechallenges For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation. Clay Shirky effortpoliticalstrong What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain." Clay Shirky toolspromiseneeds
