Curation comes up when search stops working. Clay Shirky More Quotes by Clay Shirky More Quotes From Clay Shirky What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain." Clay Shirky toolspromiseneeds Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration. Clay Shirky inspirationstonespeople Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting. Clay Shirky toolsinteresting Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done. Clay Shirky going-awayjobsmean Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move. Clay Shirky egalitarianismpastmoving When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool. Clay Shirky toolsmanagementphilosophy Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response. Clay Shirky powerfulbelievethinking Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. Clay Shirky journalismnewspapersneeds Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate. Clay Shirky groupswantpeople There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback. Clay Shirky threewritingneeds We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast. Clay Shirky feelingsthinking The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem. Clay Shirky dedicatedproblemprinciples The loss of control you fear is already in the past. Clay Shirky losspast In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public. Clay Shirky professionmembers Collaboration is not an absolute good. Clay Shirky absolutescollaboration Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. Clay Shirky membersindividualgroups One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right. Clay Shirky behaveknowsway There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it. Clay Shirky environmentaltogether-we-canlying Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work. Clay Shirky attentiontodayneeds With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem. Clay Shirky digitaldataproblem
