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You Can't Filter Twitter: Clay Shirky TED Talk on Global Citizen Journalism

macross city flaneur — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:21:30 -0800

As turmoil continues in Iran, with protesters and members of the opposition party empowered by Twitter and camera-equipped cell phones, Clay Shirky gives a TED Talk on the emerging global era of bottom-up journalism, including the phenomenon of the transfer of social technology patterns from the second and third world to the first. Previously

Whither newspapers?

Chocolate Pickle — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:30:46 -0800

Clay Shirky writes about what is killing newspapers and what will replace them.

Clay Shirky In Charge

kliuless — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:12:18 -0800

The Role of Inconvenience in Designing Social Systems (slyt via robowhiz) cf. affordances & infinite games

Looking for the mouse

blasdelf — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:33:17 -0800

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus — Clay Shirky on post-broadcast societal outlets.

Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software

turbodog — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:11:47 -0800

Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software is Clay Shirky's latest essay on social software. It describes some interesting experiments and avenues for experimentation in reducing flaming in social discourse software. A prime example is Bumplist.

Exiting Deanspace

mooncrow — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:54:39 -0800

Exiting Deanspace: As one who has watched with growing nausea as the Howard Dean campaign has smacked up against primary reality and disintegrated, this lengthy article offers some useful truths. While the post mortem is far from over, this cogent analysis by Clay Shirky from "Many 2 Many" points out how so many of us could have been so blinded by the process . . . while still having reason for hope.

Many2Many:

turbodog — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:31:48 -0800

Many2Many a group weblog on social software featuring, among others, Clay Shirky.

Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content

Blake — Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:52:26 -0800

Scott McCloud and Clay Shirky are trading ideas on Micropayemnts again. Clay Says user-pays schemes can't simply be restored through minor tinkering with payment systems, because they don't address the cause of that change -- a huge increase the power and reach of the individual creator.. Scott Says micropayments, well, BitPass are here to stay this time.
As a content producer I like the idea, but as a content consumer I'm just not sure yet.
If mefi went Micro, would you pay?