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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 ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
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- Social book reading in the digital age
- * Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Andy Santamaria I know what you're thinking. You read the title of this post and thought, "Books have always been social, we share them with friends, form book clubs, and bend at Oprah's...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Yahoo plots app mall, app portability through its properties
- Yahoo has been busy rolling out new features---new home page, revamped My Yahoo, Mail and Messenger overhauls---that come courtesy of its infrastructure revamp a few years in the making. Among the most promising efforts by Yahoo are its homepage applications. Open to all third parties and self...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- News to know: Oracle; Sidekick; Win7 party; Google; Yahoo Hack day
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Jason Hiner: Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prize Scott McNealy names Sun's top 10 tech...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Clay Shirky, live from Yahoo Open Hack Day 2009
- We're live at Yahoo's Open Hack Day 2009 in New York City. by Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Facebook pages for schools
- Separation is KeyI don't think Facebook is an appropriate medium for schools to communicate with students/parents/faculty. One of the issues that comes up in our household frequently is the separation of personal and professional life on Facebook, i.e., I am not "friends" with any of my professional acquaintances on...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- Social networks change how we understand Sotomayor nomination
- Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor are happening now, with partisan forces on both sides cheering on their relevant Senators. The debate, of course, is also happening online, The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas reports. One Facebook group, "Sonia Sotomayor for U.S. Supreme Court Justice" now...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public Matthew Miller: iPhone OS 3.0 update fails connecting...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Crying Wolff? News As We Knew It Dies -- In 8 Years.
- Leave it to YouTube to defend "the idea of news" and a Vanity Fair media columnist and online news aggregator to put a deadline of eight years on its demise. Two newspapers in two different two-newspaper towns Seattle and Denver have died in the last month. Journalists...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Gagging patients from online criticism
- Gagging patients from online criticismThe empowered patient's perspectiveStrictly speaking, I myself didn't call it repulsive – I quoted the founder of RateMDs.com, as reported in the AP article. I called it disempowering and "an almost comical attempt to hold back the tide." :–)Check out, in that post, what Clay...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-04
- Enterprise 2.0: innovation is the name of the game
- I'm at the Microsoft FastForward conference in Las Vegas, and seeing and hearing quite a bit about the growing movement to open up enterprises and drive greater innovation with Enterprise 2.0. Here are some observations: There's what I call it the LIFT phenomenon -- Linked In, Facebook,...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
- What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. In other words -- much of the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Are you suffering from information filter failure?
- Clay Shirky, an author and an instructor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, says personal lives are a thing of the past, privacy is an information management problem and life is quickly becoming a systems design issue. Shirky, speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in New...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- The view from the trenches...
- Taking a pragmatic approach on collaboration 2.0 strategy and tactics, here's an example of some realities from a client side perspective. This post is about what it's like inside a large enterprise running a collaboration system. I've been on both sides of the fence during my career:...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Scribes, professionals and the decline of mass media
- Clay Shirky, in his Here Comes Everybody, devotes a chapter, "Everyone is a media outlet", to a comparison of the decline of scribal production to the decline of "professional" journalism. He sets up this analogy on faulty legs that leave the argument that "what was once a chasm is now...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
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