Shirky, who'd recounted to the audience how shocked professional New York restaurant critics had been when Zagat, a crowdsourced reviewing service,
Shirky's point was that professional critics aren't as smart as they think they are, that, in fact, in the age of big data,
shirked a certain obligation, a certain contract.
Clay Shirky said recently, and put it brilliantly, as he tends to do-- oh, Clay-- that "There's no such thing as information overload.
Clay Shirky points out that we may even have the causality wrong.
don't want to shirk away from trying to explain it so that it's clear why it's that way.
get to shirk off work on a Friday .
To paraphrase Clay Shirky at NYU, it's when technology becomes boring that it becomes interesting because then people believe that they can do things with it.
It made them sort of shirk away from wanting to work with me.
I'd sourly wondered if Shirky believed that critics were also stupid to consider Alice Munro a better writer than James Patterson.
And when we do that-- Clay Shirky had a great line about this-- actually he and I talked a lot during the year.
Howard: well firstly I'll quote Clay Shirky who often says that there is no such thing as information overload, it's just filter failure.
premises parading with military precision and every shirking presupposition and sketchy implication forced out into the open
And there's this super cool guy call Clay Shirky.
I think itís also a function of what Clay Shirky calls the cognitive surplus, youíve got an awful lot of people with time on their hands, maybe 3 hours in the evening
And that is where Google comes in because as Clay Shirky said in response to all of
Uh, Clay Shirky, I'm sure you all know Clay, uh brilliant guy at NYU, wrote the book Here Comes Everybody.
And it's a question that we ignore, shirk , skirt, ridicule, and pretend we've answered when we haven't.
But with that said, we also can't shirk our duties to our communities either.
Once accused, nobody manages to shirk the accusation.
It's not helping. Clay Shirky and the cyber optimists are all saying, "Look how many people are expressing themselves.
The people that we all love to hate who try to get as much as possible from others and try to shirk having to contribute
But now Trump's victory, too, had vindicated Shirky's mockery of the pundits.
By the way, there's a law that says all the internet optimists must quote Clay Shirky once a day, so I'm about to fulfill my legal obligation.
and it's mirroring back, and my task is to stand in my light as opposed to continually shirk it.
One, yes, TED speaker, so early on, people like Clay Shirky or Kevin Kelly or a lot of people were arguing, hello, the rules in the internet age
In my read of the story, then, Onan's real sin is that he is shirking his duty to his sister-in-law.
The Internet makes it easier to form these kinds of structures, in part because it lowers the organizational cost of forming groups as Clay Shirky as argued over the
And when you have a group working together like that, most of the gossip was actually who's shirking , who's not working out hard enough.
I was on Twitter today and I forget what brought it up, but I said something about media, or I think it was Clay Shirky.
the years after the first printing presses were created, it's a wonderful period to study and there've been a bunch of interesting pieces, written about Clay Shirky has written about
behaviors are extending into other areas of our lives. And this is driving a massive cultural shift from Generation Me to Generation We. Clay Shirky, who I'm sure you're all familiar
Karen: Hello, everybody and greetings to everybody on VC. I'm Karen Wickre and it gives me great pleasure to introduce our guest, Clay Shirky, today. Clay, his day job is teaching
Maybe you're familiar with the wonderful, well, two actual wonderful books, Clay Shirky's book, "Here Comes Everybody", and Howard Rheingold's book, "Smart Mobs". People f-, in this environment,
I think they've been reactive. But, I mean, there are some brilliant people like Clay Shirky, the NYU professor who writes a brilliant blog and