1. About Clay Shirky

    Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. They consistently are among students' top choices, and accordingly, fill up quickly.

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    He has written and been interviewed extensively about the internet since 1996. His columns and writings have appeared in Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Wired.

    Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client-server infrastructure that characterizes the World Wide Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the U.S. Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC.

    Before there was a Web, Shirky was vice-president of the New York chapter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and wrote technology guides for Ziff-Davis. He appeared as an expert witness on internet culture in Shea vs. Reno, a case cited in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Communications Decency Act in 1996.

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    1. “ It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure. ”
      In Is content curation is the next 'billion dollar' opportunity?
    2. “ We don't have information overload, we have filter failure. ”
      In Online Curation: The What, Why And How - An Interview With Micah Sifry

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    2. Become a Content Curation King

      Explore ClickZ (Aug 29 2011) Social Media

      ...the 90's…the mass adoption of social media. And that's where the difference comes in. NYU Professor Clay Shirky provides one of the best explanations of the role of curation in today's web in a Fast Company arti... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Chicago   Clay Shirky   Content Curation

    3. 5 Content Curation (content enhancement) Wordpress Plugins

      Explore seozap.com (Aug 15 2011)

      ...pecific issue online.” “Curation comes up when search stops working,” says author and NYU Professor Clay Shirky. But this is far more than just a human-powered filter – like a Wikipedia or related human based co... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Rohit Bhargava   Robin Good

    4. Is content curation is the next 'billion dollar' opportunity?

      Explore designweek.co.uk (Jul 8 2011)

      Is content curation is the next 'billion dollar' opportunity? ...tion be the organic, natural solution to the age of information overload? As the unnervingly clever Clay Shirky once said, ’It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.’ And it’s content curation that’s p... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Clay Shirky   Content Curation   Curation

    5. Online Curation: The What, Why And How - An Interview With Micah Sifry

      Explore Professional Online Publishing (Jun 28 2011) Social Media

      Online Curation: The What, Why And How - An Interview With Micah Sifry ...ll it like drinking from a fire hose, which you can't do. The issue is that we need better filters. Clay Shirky has said, "We don't have information overload, we have filter failure." The old filters that we rel... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Obama   Clay Shirky

    6. What is Content Curation? | Cybercom Blog

      Explore Cybercom (May 11 2011) Marketing , Social Media

      ... and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online. Author and NYU Professor Clay Shirky explains, “Curation comes up when people realise that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Steve Rosenbaum   Clay Shirky   Content Curation

    7. CW Bulletin Papacosta

      Explore iabc.com (May 6 2011) Marketing , Search

      ...on, and it’s becoming more and more difficult to make sense of it. As New York University professor Clay Shirky has famously stated: "It's not information overload. It's filter failure.” Stated simply, content c... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Rohit Bhargava   David Meerman Scott   Ogilvy

    8. Is Content Curation the New Community Builder | Social Media Explorer

      Explore socialmediaexplorer.com (May 3 2011) Marketing , Social Media

      ...e and filter content. “Curation comes up when search stops working,” says author and NYU Professor Clay Shirky. But it’s more than a human-powered filter. “Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Mashable   Clay Shirky   Content Curation

    9. Digital's Impact On Content Creators Vs. Curators

      Explore Internet Marketing agency (Jan 16 2011) Social Media

      ...eleased a wonderful article on the subject of digital content curation last year. In it they quoted Clay Shirky who discussed the social, community element of content curation. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Social Media Marketing   Clay Shirky   Content Curation

    10. Content Curation versus Content Creation

      Explore invisibleinkdigital.com (Nov 29 2010) Marketing , Social Media

      Content Curation versus Content Creation ...realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.” – Clay Shirky It’s never been easier to curate content and to share it, but in doing so begs the questions are ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Clay Shirky   Content Curation   Content Marketing

    11. Be a Content Curator—Cultivation, Part 5 : Never Stop Marketing

      Explore Never Stop Marketing (Nov 15 2010)

      ...nformation that relates to your world. You see, the problem actually isn’t information overload. As Clay Shirky says, the “problem is filter failure.” As Shirky describes: The other problem that Gutenberg introd... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Clay Shirky   Content Curation   Curation

    12. @Biznology: Unskewing the Web: #Curators as filters

      Explore Mike Moran (Oct 12 2010) Social Media

      ...d eventually enable a new breed of editors, the social media curators. In my previous post, I cited Clay Shirky's assertion that the Internet did not bring us an information overload problem: we just needed bett... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Digg   Clay Shirky

    13. @Mashable: How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream

      Explore mashable.com (Aug 10 2010) Social Media

      The social network of a reader is quickly becoming their personalized news wire. That’s because in the last five years, a revolutionary shift has taken place in the way we consume news. Anyone can become a journalist, editor, and curator of relevant insights. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   News   Mashable   Clay Shirky

    14. Curating the Deck Chairs on the Titanic : Part 1 of 5 Part Series on Content Curation by @kissane

      Explore Incisive.nu (Jul 27 2010) Search , Social Media

      Comment "What happened to the librarians?" - Taariq Lewis

      ...l information mediators in place to help us replicate this mental process on a larger scale, but as Clay Shirky has pointed out, these filters have begun to fail.^4 And thus we see a host of automated, semi-aut... (Read Full Article)

      1 Comment Mentions:   Clay Shirky   Content Curation   Curation

    15. The Art of #Curation: An Interview with Maria Popova from #BrainPickings | NeboBlog

      Explore Web Design Company (Apr 21 2010)

      Comment "An excellent interview of Maria Popova" - Taariq Lewis

      ...ators on Twitter (such as TED’s Chris Anderson and actor Alyssa Milano) or excellent bloggers (like Clay Shirky and, okay, Seth Godin) but these are, in my experience, exceptions. Just because someone is a profe... (Read Full Article)

      1 Comment Mentions:   Huffington Post   Amazon   New York

    16. Will social media eat itself? « Bbh Labs

      Explore BBH Labs (Feb 19 2010) Social Media

      ... attest to but we use the term too loosely. As for the power of smaller networks, nothing new here. Clay Shirky was writing about that three or four years ago and talking about how once you reached a certain siz... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Social Media   America   Obama

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