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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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    1. Mentioned In 26 Articles

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

      Explore socialmediaexplorer.com (May 3 2011)

      ...r, organize 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)

      Mentions:   Mashable   Clay Shirky   Content Curation

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

      Explore Internet Marketing agency (Jan 16 2011)

      ...Mashable released 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)

      Mentions:   Social Media Marketing   Clay Shirky   Content Curation

    4. Content Curation versus Content Creation

      Explore invisibleinkdigital.com (Nov 29 2010)

      ...n people 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)

      Mentions:   Clay Shirky   Content Curation   Content Marketing

    5. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay

      Explore mashable.com (Nov 23 2010)

      ...er, organize 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’t j... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Steve Rosenbaum   Austin   Clay Shirky

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

      Explore Never Stop Marketing (Nov 15 2010)

      ...age” for information 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 intro... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Clay Shirky   Content Curation   Curation

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

      Explore Mike Moran (Oct 12 2010)

      @Biznology: Unskewing the Web: #Curators as filters ...s: it would 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 bet... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   New York Times   Digg   Clay Shirky

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

      Explore mashable.com (Aug 10 2010)

      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)

      Mentions:   News   Mashable   Clay Shirky

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

      Explore Incisive.nu (Jul 27 2010)

      Curating the Deck Chairs on the Titanic : Part 1 of 5 Part Series on Content Curation by @kissane ...chnological 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-au... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Clay Shirky   Content Curation   Curation

    10. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay

      Explore FastCompany.com (May 10 2010)

      ...er, organize 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’t j... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Steve Rosenbaum   MTV UNfiltered   New York

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

      Explore Web Design Company (Apr 21 2010)

      ... great curators 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 prof... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Huffington Post   Amazon   New York

    12. Will social media eat itself? « Bbh Labs

      Explore BBH Labs (Feb 19 2010)

      ...ent we can 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 si... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Social Media   America   Obama

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