“So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.” WholeFunnyForgetFocusEffectsCostDifficultyMediumsProducersThoughtfulPoolPublishingBlogsBloggingBloggers Author:Clay Shirky
“Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.” MeanDoneJobsDifficultyPressesIncrediblesEvolveComplexityGoing AwayExpensesPublishingButtonsPublishCadre Author:Clay Shirky
“The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?” InternetMassWhy NotPublishingPublish Author:Clay Shirky
“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
