http://simonwillison.net/2009-03-15T05:09:37+00:00Simon Willison2009-03-15T05:09:37+00:002009-03-15T05:09:37+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Mar/15/newspapers/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/"><p>It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves - the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public - has stopped being a problem.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/">Clay Shirky</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/clay-shirky">clay-shirky</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/newspapers">newspapers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/publishing">publishing</a></p>

2009-01-13T14:22:59+00:002009-01-13T14:22:59+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/13/reading/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.cjr.org/overload/interview_with_clay_shirky_par.php?page=all"><p>What the Internet has actually done is not decimate literary reading; that was really a done deal by 1970. What it has done, instead, is brought back reading and writing as a normal activity for a huge group of people.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.cjr.org/overload/interview_with_clay_shirky_par.php?page=all">Clay Shirky</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/clay-shirky">clay-shirky</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet">internet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/reading">reading</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tv">tv</a></p>

2008-06-16T08:16:40+00:002008-06-16T08:16:40+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/16/wikipedia/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/15/Deletionist-Morons"><p>There are two [Wikipedias]: One is the public-facing reliable-enough-on-average encyclopedia that people read every day, which makes for nice fluff pieces in the media about "these new Web thingamajigs that the kids are building, aren't they neat?". The other is the insular behind-the-scenes bureaucracy, which reads like an improvised performance of the collected writings of Clay Shirky.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/15/Deletionist-Morons">James Bennett</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/clay-shirky">clay-shirky</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/james-bennett">james-bennett</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/snark">snark</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wikipedia">wikipedia</a></p>

2008-05-01T13:01:16+00:002008-05-01T13:01:16+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/1/infovore/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://infovore.org/archives/2008/05/01/consumption-is-also-about-choice/">Consumption is also about choice</a></strong></p> Tom Armitage’s thoughtful response to Clay Shirky’s Web 2.0 talk on television as “cognitive surplus”. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/clay-shirky">clay-shirky</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/consumption">consumption</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tom-armitage">tom-armitage</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tv">tv</a></p>

2005-01-25T22:54:59+00:002005-01-25T22:54:59+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2005/Jan/25/tags/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/01/24/tags_folksonomies_tags_flat_name_spaces.php">Tags != folksonomies &amp;&amp; Tags != Flat name spaces</a></strong></p> Clay Shirky’s latest thoughts on tags. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/clay-shirky">clay-shirky</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tagging">tagging</a></p>

2004-08-15T00:10:58+00:002004-08-15T00:10:58+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2004/Aug/15/shirky/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.shirky.com/writings/spectrum_public_good.html">Shirky: The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good</a></strong></p> Unlicensed spectrum explained by Clay Shirky. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/14/2037237">Slashdot</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/clay-shirky">clay-shirky</a></p>

2003-12-18T19:58:49+00:002003-12-18T19:58:49+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2003/Dec/18/riaa/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html">The RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed</a></strong></p> Shirky compares file sharing to prohibition <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2003/12/18#When:10:56:17AM">Scripting News</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/clay-shirky">clay-shirky</a></p>

2003-07-10T13:52:43+00:002003-07-10T13:52:43+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2003/Jul/10/clearout/#atom-tag

<ul> <li>Tristan Louis' <a href="http://www.tnl.net/blog/entry/RSS2Necho">RSS to Necho convertor</a> puts paid to the idea that the success of one format will be detrimental to the usefulness of the other.</li> <li>O'Reilly's RegExp Power series (<a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/06/regexps.html" title="Regexp Power">part one</a> and <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/07/01/regexps.html" title="Power Regexps, Part II">part two</a>) demonstrate some powerful tricks for use with Perl compatible regular expressions.</li> <li>Norman Walsh explains <a href="http://norman.walsh.name/2003/07/02/conneg">Content Negotiation</a> and some of the pitfalls with modern browser implementations.</li> <li>So <a href="http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/t/51809/11f30324974ff57f0779a36abf0b7ebdds.html" title="No more Mister Biffo">that's</a> what happened to Digitiser. See also a <a href="http://www.lynn3686.freeserve.co.uk/digitiser.html">Digitiser Tribute</a> and a <a href="http://www.geocities.com/flyingturduk/biffo.html">Mr Biffo interview</a> from 2001 for background information. I cuss you bad.</li> <li><a href="http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html">George Orwell: Politics and the English Language</a></li> <li>Clay Shirky: <a href="http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html">A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy</a>. The title is misguiding; this is an essay about how online groups behave and how to look after them.</li> <li>A <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/">Java HttpClient Class</a>.</li> <li>Some good stuff on Boxes and Arrows: <a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/ten_quotable_moments_challenges_and_responses_for_ui_designers.php">Ten Quotable Moments: Challenges and Responses for UI Designers</a> and <a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/views_and_forms_principles_of_task_flow_for_web_applications_part_1.php">Views and Forms: Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications (Part 1)</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.lynnparkplace.org/vot/archives/accessibility/000050.html">Inside our notions of "document"</a> and <a href="http://www.lynnparkplace.org/vot/archives/accessibility/000051.html">Inside our documents II - the Runoff model</a>.</li> <li>5 days worth of XSLT observations from Simon St. Laurent: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3339" title="XSLT Training, Day 1">One</a>, <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3345" title="XSLT Training, Day 2">Two</a>, <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3350" title="Labels vs. Types and Other Culture Clashes">Three</a>, <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3356" title="Switching Gears - XSL-FO, Day 1">Four</a>, <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3363" title="XSL-FO, Day 2">Five</a>.</li> <li>Windows programming with open source tools: <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">Minimalist GNU For Windows</a> and <a href="http://webclub.kcom.ne.jp/ma/colinp/win32/">Win32 Programming with GNU C and C++</a>.</li> </ul> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/clay-shirky">clay-shirky</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digitiser">digitiser</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/george-orwell">george-orwell</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/httpclient">httpclient</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/java">java</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/perl">perl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/regexp">regexp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rss">rss</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/simon-st-laurent">simon-st-laurent</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tristan-louis">tristan-louis</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/windows">windows</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xslt">xslt</a></p>

2003-01-11T17:28:52+00:002003-01-11T17:28:52+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2003/Jan/11/chatRoomsAndMeetings/#atom-tag

<p><a href="http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/26/inroom_chat.html">In-Room Chat as a Social Tool</a>: Clay Shirky describes an experiment with an online chat room set up to accompany a meeting of 30 people taking place in the same room. The chat room (available to attendees via Wifi laptops and displayed on a big screen at the front of the room) had some interesting effects on the dynamics of the meeting, not least of which was the dramatic impact the chat room had on the "interrupt logic" of the proceedings.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/clay-shirky">clay-shirky</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/collaboration">collaboration</a></p>