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  3. 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.

    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.

  6. Quotes

    1. “ Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism ”
      In On The Decline Of Magazines
    2. “ It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure. ”
      In Is content curation is the next 'billion dollar' opportunity?
    3. “ 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. On The Decline Of Magazines

      Explore Only Dead Fish (Aug 27 2012) Industry Trends

      On The Decline Of Magazines ...ch allowed partners to reuse Guardian content and data for free). Here's an example of what I mean. Clay Shirky once wrote "Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism". So perhaps the opportunit... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Huffington Post   ABC   New York Times

    3. Become a Content Curation King

      Explore ClickZ (Jun 4 2012) Industry & Business News

      ...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)

      Mentions:   Chicago   Clay Shirky   Content Curation

    4. When Curation Changes Media, How Can it Fail to Change Brand Marketing?

      Explore Capital New York (May 4 2012)

      When Curation Changes Media, How Can it Fail to Change Brand Marketing? ...ting fellow panelist Joshua Benton, the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard, for using Clay Shirky and Clay Christensen in the same sentence. Though Starkman’s C.J.R. story is concise and thoroughly... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   New York Times   India   New York

    5. Content Curation Uses Many of the Same Skill Sets as Content Creation

      Explore stickycontent.co.uk (Apr 27 2012)

      ...rticularly useful for building, maintaining and developing shared communities of taste. As web guru Clay Shirky says, “Curation comes up when search stops working. It comes up when people realise that content is... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Clay Shirky   Content Curation   Curation

    6. "Information Mediation is What People Do"

      Explore Incisive.nu (Apr 24 2012)

      "Information Mediation is What People Do" ...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)

      Mentions:   Clay Shirky   Curation

    7. Aggregation, Curation, Original Content at the Huffington Post

      Explore Columbia Journalism Review (Apr 18 2012)

      Aggregation, Curation, Original Content at the Huffington Post ...ot excite him. Berry enrolled at NYU’s ITP, where he’d taken a class as an undergrad, studying with Clay Shirky, the media theorist. To the school’s chagrin, he kept his job and maintained a full class load. Two... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Huffington Post   Guardian   Australia

    8. Curating content: It's not just about dinosaur bones!

      Explore Get It Write (Nov 22 2011)

      Curating content: It's not just about dinosaur bones! ...sue. As Donna Papacosta told the IABC/Toronto Westend group on Nov. 15 — quoting author and speaker Clay Shirky – “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure.” “People used to rely on the morning newspap... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Clay Shirky   Curation   Donna Papacosta

    9. Content curation on the social intranet

      Explore intranetblog.com (Sep 28 2011)

      Content curation on the social intranet ..., the pile would reach half way to Mars. “It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure, “says Clay Shirky. Inside the enterprise, on the intranet, employees are demanding and want and need work informati... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   Clay Shirky   Content Curation

    10. Content curation a tool for content marketing

      Explore slideshare.net (Sep 18 2011)

      Content curation a tool for content marketing ...ust about information seeking, it&aposs; also about synchronizing a community."-- NYU Professor Clay Shirky Content curation: a process of assembling, summarizing and categorizing and interpreting informatio... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   RSS   Digg   Clay Shirky

    11. Become a Content Curation King

      Explore ClickZ (Aug 29 2011)

      ...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)

      Mentions:   Chicago   Clay Shirky   Content Curation

    12. 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)

      Mentions:   New York Times   Rohit Bhargava   Robin Good

    13. 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)

      Mentions:   Clay Shirky   Content Curation   Curation

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

      Explore Professional Online Publishing (Jun 28 2011)

      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)

      Mentions:   New York Times   Obama   Clay Shirky

    15. What is Content Curation? | Cybercom Blog

      Explore Cybercom (May 11 2011)

      What is Content Curation? | Cybercom Blog ... 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)

      Mentions:   Steve Rosenbaum   Clay Shirky   Content Curation

    16. CW Bulletin Papacosta

      Explore iabc.com (May 6 2011)

      ...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)

      Mentions:   Rohit Bhargava   David Meerman Scott   Ogilvy

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