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- Are we all just cognitive surplus?
- Clay Shirky, and his truly handsome hairline, is not into the ragehol like I am. That is, he does not anger easily. But he admits to nearly losing it recently, when after describing a Wikipedia skirmish to a TV producer, he got the question ...
- Tags: Surplus, Shirky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Wiki, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
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- Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates
- Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...
- Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Supernova: Anti-social networks and the love connection
- I'm sitting next to Mitch Ratcliffe at Supernova 2007 during the morning presentations. First up, Denise Caruso of The Hybrid Vigor Institute her view that today's social networks are anti-social and Clay Shirky of NYU talked about love and the open source community movement. Mitch covers the presentations and...
- Tags: Social networking, Supernova
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Denise Caruso: Anti-social media defeats progress
- Author and New York Times columnist and Hybrid Vigor Institute founder Denise Caruso, whose new book, Intervention, just arrived, launches the Supernova Conference with a call for diversity of ideas, conversation and, ultimately, collaboration. Leaping forward without first talking, discussing the potential benefits and consequences of a new technology creates...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- A cautionary utility computing tale
- A cautionary utility computing taleA ShirkyAnd in-house software never goes down?I'd be more impressed with this as an "analysis" if did some work to compare the reliability of the two models rather than pointing at the transparent public failures of Saas/Utility computing and suggesting it means something.Are Amazon & Salesforce...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Network technology, utility computing
- Discussion threads 2007-01-05
- Second Life: Don't believe the hype
- Clay Shirky is on a mission to debunk the resident numbers of Second Life that are routinely published by the games makers Linden Labs and subsequently banded about by bloggers and journalists alike. And hes doing a pretty good job:Lindens numbers also suggest that the Residents figure includes even failed...
- Tags: Clay Shirky, Linden Labs
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- Skype, SecondLife and the "TryMe Virus" phenomenon
- I take great pleasure in reading passionate pieces where the writer calls attention to faulty and widespread thinking. (I like to write such pieces myself but I give props to other thought leaders no prob.)Writing on Valleywag, author and frequent conventional wisdom debunker Clay Shirky really has hit the...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Second Life, virus, Clay Shirky, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Are wikis and blogs the future of spying?
- In a fascinating piece in Sundays Times, Clive Thompson reveals that, confronted with the intractable problem of getting 16 intelligence agencies communicating and interoperating, the CIA set up a competition, the Galileo Awards, for the best ideas on how to combat the problem. The winning essay was written by Calvin...
- Tags: Intelligence, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Wikipedia used to spread malicious code
- Wikipedia used to spread malicious codeLovely. Time to stop using it...or wikipedia doing more on their part to prevent opportunities like this in the future.Thats the problem with communityOpen source information only works as well as the least common denominator. There will always be someone looking to take advantage...
- Tags: Wiki, Viruses and worms, Wikipedia, malicious code
- Discussion threads 2006-11-06
- Wikipedia and its 'bad seed': Is Web 2.0 a friend of true knowledge?
- In “Web 2.0 smackdown: intellectuals vs. amateurs in Citizendium” I discuss Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger’s announced highbrow spin off of the touted “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”:Larry Sanger’s Citizendium mission to shepherd the brain power of what he estimates is 3% of the Internet population; intellectuals or ‘educated, thinking...
- Tags: Larry Sanger&rsquo, s, Wikipedia, Wikipedian
- Blog posts 2006-09-21
- Blogosphere: gender oppression, or gender choice?
- “Blogosphere: Why is this supposedly democratic medium recreating real-world inequality?”, asked Jessica Guynn yesterday in the Contra Costa Times:not all blogs are created equal. A blogarchy has emerged from the Internet equivalent of an "American Idol" popularity contest. This elite clique of bloggers -- the so-called A-listers who get checked...
- Tags: women, blog, blogosphere
- Blog posts 2006-05-22
- ETech 2006 wrap-up
- As ETech 2006 winds down, I wanted to mention some of the highlights as well as a lowlight. The conference highlights included the keynotes by Ray Ozzie, Jon Udell, Clay Shirky for their simple, practical ideas...
- Tags: strategy, last day, Clay Shirky
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- Not kidding
- In the car on the way to school (pre-K camp) this morning, my 4.5 year old Ella asked me what "serious" meant. I asked her what the context was. She haltingly indicated that it was something someone on the DVD player was saying; i.e. I'm serious. I asked her what...
- Tags: Seth
- Blog posts 2005-07-29
- Semantic web looking for the killer app
- Tim Berners-Lee continues to preach the gospel of the semantic web. Speaking at the Fourth Annual Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Berners-Lee discussed how the semantic web could solve problems in the life sciences: Life scientists in particular could...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Clay Shirky, Tim Berners-Lee
- Blog posts 2005-05-20
- Semantic web looking for the killer app
- Tim Berners-Lee continues to preach the gospel of the semantic web. Speaking at the Fourth Annual Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Berners-Lee discussed how the semantic web could solve problems in the life sciences: Life scientists in particular could...
- Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, Semantic Web
- Blog posts 2005-05-20
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