“With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. 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.” ProblemFormIndustryEconomicsDifficultyStructureIncrediblesProductionsAvailableSolveCoreDestroyedDataComplexityDigitalExpensesPublishingReplacedOrganizationalPublishing Industry Author:Clay Shirky
“Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.” NeedsNewspapersJournalism Author:Clay Shirky
“Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.” ThinkingWorldBelieveReasonHelpingUseGovernmentPoliticalSocialPowerfulStepsMediaWillingToolsResponseSocial MediaPracticalsActivistUsersExileUtilityDissidentsPolitical Change Author:Clay Shirky
“When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.” PhilosophyToolsManagementEmbedded Author:Clay Shirky
“Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.” WayTryingProgrammingExplicitImplicitFuzzy Author:Clay Shirky
