Tag: Clay Shirky

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| January 30, 2011

Particularize

As I mentioned the other day, the Shirky/Doctorow thesis is that the internet in general and social media in particular...

| July 21, 2010

last round with Shirky

So to get to the heart of the matter that I’ve been discussing in the previous two posts: I doubt that Clay Shirky...

| July 20, 2010

Shirky and me, continued

So, again, how do those exciting autobiographical revelations from my last post relate to Clay Shirky’s ideas about...

| July 19, 2010

Shirky and me

My suspicions of Clay Shirky’s techno-optimism — detailed in several recent posts on this blog — have a genuine...

| July 13, 2010

creativity in crisis

Well, this does not seem to be good news: With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect — each...

| June 30, 2010

creation and consumption

From Megan Garber’s largely positive, thoughtful review of Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus: But the problem with...

| June 28, 2010

this is dialogue?

library ad infinitum: Putting The Shallows into dialogue with Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus, the latter book seems...

| May 27, 2010

the dichotomy

Clay Shirky: There are two principal effects of the Internet on privacy. The first is to shrink personal expression to...