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	Clay Shirky \| Socialtext Enterprise Wiki
		Shirky frequently speaks on emerging technologies at a variety of forums and organizations, including PC Forum, the Internet Society, the Department of Defense, the BBC, the American Museum of the Moving Image, the Highlands Forum, the Economist Group, Storewidth, the World Technology Network, and several O'Reilly conferences on Peer-to-Peer, Open Source, and Emerging Technology.
		Shirky was the original Professor of New Media in the Media Studies department at Hunter College, where he created the department's first undergraduate and graduate offerings in new media, and helped design the current MFA in Integrated Media Arts program.
		Shirky graduated from Yale College with a degree in art, and prior to eloping with the internet, he worked as a theater director and designer in New York.
	www.socialtext.com /company/clay-shirky (570 words)

	Clay Shirky on Communities, Audiences, and Scale (kottke.org)
		Clay's argument has interesting implications for MeFi, as its membership is right around the magic 10,000 user number that he mentions.
		Clay Shirky's footnote about the 150 limit in the size of human communities anticipates what I was also thinking about.
		Clay does define for the purposes of this essay in the first footnote: "For this analysis, community is used as a term of art to refer to groups whose members actively communicate with one another."
	www.kottke.org /02/04/clay-shirky-on-communities-audiences-and-scale (1470 words)

	Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm » Blog Archive » Clay Shirky on Powerlaws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Clay writes a excellent overview of some of the means for engineering the shape of the power-law curve.
		I wish Clay had mentioned that one way to reduce the slope of the curve is to improve the information available to the network members.
		Clay points out an interesting tension on the left of politics between the “powerlaw reality” and oft-proposed left-wing interventionist management especially when considered with these issues of stiffled commercial innovation.
	enthusiasm.cozy.org /archives/2004/01/clay-shirky-on-powerlaws (888 words)

	IrishEyes: Clay Shirky is Digital Media
		Shirky puts things into perspective, perhaps better than most of the line-up at the O2 Digital Media Conference in Dublin later this month.
		Shirky on what will change the world: "The narrow sense of freedom, in tech terms, is a freedom to tinker, to prod and poke and break and fix things.
		Clay Shirky and Justin Mason share the same hymn book when it comes to verses about the current state of play for creatives--the government is stifling creativity by impressing tighter patent controls.
	irish.typepad.com /irisheyes/2004/04/clay_shirky_is_.html (397 words)

	Phil Windley's Technometria \| Clay Shirky on Social Structure in Social Software
		Clay was the subject of some controversy during the conference caused by this article in the Register.
		Clay Shirky is giving the final talk of the morning.
		Clay gives an example of BBS systems in the 1970’s that started out as “open access” and “freedom of speech” were “overrun” by teenage boys who wanted to talk about bathroom jokes, sex, etc. The group didn’t have enough structure to fend off these “attacks” on the group.
	www.windley.com /archives/2003/04/clay_shirky_on.shtml (1088 words)

	AdamNation
		I emailed Jon and Clay five questions on where they think tagging is going and what some of the key opportunity and challenge areas are vis-a-vis consumer adoption and key value drivers.
		Shirky: Users only ever ask themselves "Where is that information?" as a proxy to their real desire, which is to be able to use the information somehow -- the "Find" step is simply a necessary evil.
		Shirky: The context of a tag is critical -- users tag differently on del.icio.us than on Flickr, so treating tags as purely atomic elements strips them of much of their value.
	adam.easyjournal.com /entry.aspx?eid=2632426 (2486 words)

	Long Now Discuss > View topic - 02005-11-14 > Clay Shirky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Clay Shirky is an adjunct professor at New York University and, among other provocations, runs a mailing list on "Networks, Economics and Culture" at http://tinyurl.com/a6mt6.
		Sample Shirkyism: "The only group that can categorize everything is everybody." That defies 3,000 years of intellectual practice (Library of Congress, etc.), and it obviously can't work, but it blithely does work in a Googlized world, and over time it's the only thing that can work, but time introduces other problems.
		Clay's a good guy, but before he gets us to accept that redundancy, overlap, inexact data classifications and so on are always a "virtue", we ought to be asking very hard questions.
	discuss.longnow.org /viewtopic.php?t=39 (2302 words)

	A Response to Clay Shirky's “The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview” (Ftrain.com)
		Clay Shirky, a well-regarded thinker on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies, has published an essay called “The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview,” a critical appraisal of the semantic web which claims, in essence, that the Semantic Web is a technological pipe dream: an over-specified solution in search of a problem.
		Shirky writes, “Despite their appealing simplicity, syllogisms don't work well in the real world, because most of the data we use is not amenable to such effortless recombination.
		There are many other points in Shirky's essay that I disagree with, and I originally set out to refute them point by point, but essentially, I disagree with every one of his major conclusions, and find them to be based on incomplete understanding of what the Semantic Web is and how its researchers work.
	www.ftrain.com /ContraShirky.html (4628 words)

	Misunderstanding Micropayments - Scott McCloud
		Thus when Clay Shirky wrote The Case Against Micropayments late that year, his arguments rang true because the implementation of micropayments he described was every bit as ghastly as he claimed.
		Shirky repeatedly offers examples in which aggregated content (like newspapers or site subscriptions) are more convenient for buyers than the sorts of a la carte purchases which micropayments could enable.
		Shirky is also ignoring the role of free previews, samples and third party reviews in evaluating unfamiliar content.
	www.scottmccloud.com /home/essays/2003-09-micros/micros.html (3564 words)

	O'Reilly Radar > ETech: Clay Shirky
		Clay Shirky just gave a fantastic talk at ETech about the patterns behind moderation systems which went beyond that.
		Clay's talk didn't sound like that to me. Clay seemed respectful, as I hope you'll see when his slides go online.
		I was typing as Clay spoke, and Clay isn't a laboured speaker.
	radar.oreilly.com /archives/2006/03/etech_clay_shirky.html (1824 words)

	Apps: Clay Shirky: Tagging
		Clay's speech was very information dense and I had trouble staying up with my notes.
		In my mid-term paper for ICM I also talked a little about pluralism, the idea that something can be part of two (or more) things equally, and we don't necessarily have to decide which one of those it is to be able to deal with it.
		Clay mentioned a number of problems with tagging, one of which is the thesaurus problem, where similar spellings or slightly different names (nyc, new_york, newyork, etc.) really mean the same thing but will be considered different by Flickr.
	itp.nyu.edu /~cf831/apps/archives/2005/11/clay_shirky_the.html (776 words)

	/Message: Clay Shirky: Social Software is The Experimental Wing of Political Philosophy
		Clay Shirky has nailed a manifesto on the door, here at the High Church of Technocracy at ETech.
		I found it particularly funny that Clay used Dave Winer's unilateral conversion of an once open mailing list into a centralized, moderated mailing list (which led to quite a howling by the members of the group) as the prototypical example of freedom devolving into tyranny.
		Clay has asked us to become involved in the specification of the pattern language of moderation, which is the necessary precondition for deep understanding of the future social contract as realized in the pervasive social architecture now emerging.
	www.stoweboyd.com /message/2006/03/clay_shirky_soc.html (1018 words)

	Clay Shirky Predicts the Demise of The Semantic Web .: Manageability :.
		Clay Shirky is one of those few persons with a keen insight on the workings of the web.
		Well Clay is at it again and takes a good hard swing at the Semantic Web.
		Clay Shirky gives you a pretty precise description of the lay of the land, its high time we accept reality.
	www.manageability.org /blog/stuff/clay-shirky-semantic-web (353 words)

	DaveNet : Clay Shirky on P2P
		Clay Shirky is an Internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist at The Accelerator Group in NYC.
		Clay posted an essay on a mailing list I subscribe to, attempting to explain once and for all, what P2P is, and I think he did a wonderful job.
		After a year or so of attempting to describe the revolution in file sharing and related technologies, we have finally settled on a label for what's happening: peer-to-peer.
	davenet.scripting.com /2000/11/15/clayShirkyOnP2p (1670 words)

	Life Enhancement Products Presents: NeoFiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shirky’s site where I found still more lucid observations about the state of the net.
		Shirky spent some time as a theater director and designer in New York.
		Shirky currently divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.
	www.life-enhancement.com /NeoFiles/default.asp?id=35 (2226 words)

	Joho the Blog: [etech] Clay Shirky: Ontologies and Tags
		People have assumed that tags that mean the same thing are actually the same, but (Clay says) "movie" people don't want to hang out with "cinema" people, and "queer" people certainly don't want to hang out with "homosexual" people.
		Joho the Blog: [etech] Clay Shirky: Ontologies and Tags: He shows graphs that provide evidence that tagging forms power laws â” who tags, and the tags that individuals use.
		Clay's point about the Balkan Peninsula, Africa, and Asia in LCSH makes a similar point, both of which are artifacts stemming from flawed premises about hierarchical arrangements and temporality.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/003803.html (671 words)

	3quarksdaily
		Among many other things, Clay Shirky teaches New Media at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
		One of Clay's observations about the blogosphere in "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality" has been encapsulated by Hugh McLeod as what is sometimes referred to as "Shirky's Law":
		Clay will be delivering a keynote talk entitled "Failure for Free" at the Aula 2006 Movement meeting.
	3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2006/06/aula_2006_movem_1.html (944 words)

	IT Conversations: Clay Shirky
		The talk ends by discussing key technologies in the spread of extractive value -- Google, del.icio.us, fotonotes, purple numbers, RDF -- and wrapping up with some predictions about where value might be encapsulated in user-tagged, semi-structured data in the future.
		Clay Shirky teaches at NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program.
		He writes and consults on the social and economic effects of the Internet, concentrating particularly on the decentralization of applications (peer-to-peer architectures and programmatic interfaces) and on the current explosion in social software.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail470.html (716 words)

	Mindjack - Linked Out: Blogging, Equality, and the Future
		For every newcomer who chooses their links according to a careful consideration of many preferences, there are millions who will make those choices based on the recommendation and influence of the choices of more established bloggers.
		Shirky acknowledges the role of influence but dismisses its importance in status-making.
		Yet anyone who has spent even a small amount of time blogging knows that there are handful of bloggers who are so A-list their names are synonymous with the form itself (Clay Shirky, for example).
	www.mindjack.com /feature/linkedout.html (1978 words)

	Phil Windley's Technometria \| Clay Shirky on Moderation Strategies (ETech 2006)
		Clay Shirky is speaking about pattern languages for moderation strategies.
		The problem is there’s a steep knee in the curve, meaning that there’s a point where as soon as you get a certain level of freedom the annoyingness of the group skyrockets.
		Clay uses Slashdot as an example of defending against this.
	www.windley.com /archives/2006/03/clay_shirky_on_1.shtml (525 words)

	Orlowski Slams O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
		The article in question details the claims of one potential speaker, purportedly excluded from the conference because he advocates a technology that didn't meet a particular litmus test by social software track chair Clay Shirky.
		While some of the old companies in blogging do advocate blogging that was not the litmus test of who gets inclduded in the confrerence..if that was the case you woudl have seen netscape incldued as one of the 'first' bloggers as recognized by Mr.
		I for one am happy with Clay's choices to learn new trends in blogging and new ways users are using blogs and asking for more features..
	www.oreillynet.com /cs/user/view/wlg/3100 (4240 words)

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		On the contrary, Clay Shirky argues, great cities are the emblems of a decentralized society.
		Clay Shirky and O'Reilly & Associates call on PC manufacturers to install the most recent version of the JVM on their Windows machines.
		P2P is a sloppy idea, admits Clay Shirky, but a big one, and a very good one.
	www.openp2p.com /pub/au/106 (2145 words)

	On The Media- Get Me Rewrite
		CLAY SHIRKY: The answer for all wikis is what makes a wiki good is not the technology but the community.
		CLAY SHIRKY: It would be if the vandalism lasted a long time.
		Whenever there's a really major disaster but no immediate news, the people on cable are often vamping because they have to keep repeating the basic story on the chance that someone has just tuned in, even in the absence of any new information.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_070805_rewrite.html (1199 words)

	Shirky: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
		Shirky: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
		Currently focusing on social software and peer-to-peer technologies, and the ways electronic networks shape the social lives of the groups that form there, and vice-versa.
		Clay writes extensively about the Internet, and his writings have appeared in the IEEE Computer magazine, FEED, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, and Business 2.0, among others.
	itp.tisch.nyu.edu /object/ShirkyC.html (128 words)

	seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: The bubble candidate
		To the surprise of few, John Kerry has emerged as the winner in Washington state's Democratic caucus, billed in recent days as a must-win for Howard Dean.
		On a related note, Clay Shirky posted the most thoughtful, expansive piece I've seen yet on why so many bought into the collective delusion that Dean was the front-runner mere weeks ago.
		The bubble of belief, which collapsed so quickly and so completely, was inflated by tools that made formerly hard things easy, tricking us into thinking that getting votes had become easy as well — we were all in Deanspace for a while there.
	blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com /buzz/archives/001395.html (419 words)

	Shirky: The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview
		From there, other expressions that include Clay Shirky, shirky.com, or Brooklyn can be further coupled.
		The Semantic Web specifies ways of exposing these kinds of assertions on the Web, so that third parties can combine them to discover things that are true but not specified directly.
		Shirky.) Though at least some of this problem comes from people trying to game the system, the far larger problem is that even when people publish meta-data that they believe to be correct, we still run into trouble.
	www.shirky.com /writings/semantic_syllogism.html (3139 words)

	Boing Boing: Shirky: stupid (c) laws block me from publishing own work online
		Shirky: stupid (c) laws block me from publishing own work online
		I was reading this bb post about Shirky being unable to copy his DVD content using ffmpeg.
		The software does prevent the user from copying directly from a DVD, but it is possible to copy the.vob files to the hard drive and then ffmpeg will happily convert the files.
	www.boingboing.net /2005/03/31/shirky_stupid_c_laws.html (668 words)

	unmediated: Clay Shirky on Citizendium and the problems of experts
		Clay Shirky on Citizendium and the problems of experts
		There is an excellent description and commentary at the Modern Dragons blog, which I strongly recommend, and won’t reproduce here.
		In earlier entries on Anti-credentialism, Equipotentiality and Communal Validation, I have tried to explain how the P2P epistemological process is fundamentally different from modernist conceptions of peer review, the commanding role of credentialed experts.
	www.unmediated.org /2006/10/clay_shirky_on.html (1740 words)

	IrishEyes: Clay Shirky on VoIP
		SHIRKY -- Clay Shirky presents a compelling view of why firms like Skype may succeed in turfing Eircom from its dominent telco position by replacing that system of voice calling with something so very this century.
		Eircom is interested in VoIP, but would never bring it to mrket because doing so means admitting to shareholders, regulators, and customers that both their monopoly strangehold and artificially high voice revenues are going away.
		Clay Shirky -- "VoIP - Plan A vs Plan B" x_ref125mc
	irish.typepad.com /irisheyes/2004/02/clay_shirky_on_.html (491 words)

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