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why i like clay shirky

why i like clay shirky 04/11/2004 07:43 PM
his gothamist interview is my love of new york with logic substituting for romance

It's a Shirky girl!

It's a Shirky girl! 02/11/2004 09:36 PM
The rumor going around etech is that Clay and his wife are the parents of a girl! Woohoo! Mazel tov to the entire family. A world with more Shirkies is a better world for all of us....

Shirky: Spectrum as resource

Shirky: Spectrum as resource 08/16/2004 04:25 PM
A nice article on some of the engineering and economics aspects of WiFi, and the history of frequency regulation in the USA.

Shirky on why light shouldn't be owned

Shirky on why light shouldn't be owned 08/14/2004 08:22 AM
Clay has posted the clearest, sober-est explanation of why it's time to regulate spectrum as a public good and not as property. It's a brilliant piece of writing in which every sentence tells....

Shirky on Spectrum Ownership

Shirky on Spectrum Ownership 08/14/2004 04:55 PM

Skip this rant and read Shirky

Skip this rant and read Shirky 12/03/2003 07:33 AM

Shirky: Wikipedia's "anti-elitism" is a
feature, not a bug

Shirky: Wikipedia's "anti-elitism" is a
feature, not a bug 01/04/2005 02:40 AM
Cory Doctorow: Kuro5hin published an article by a Wikipedia co-founder, in which he slams Wikipedia for its "anti-elitism" and calls on the organization to mend its ways in order to earn the confidence of academics, librarians and other learned types. I read it when it was first published and it seemed wrong to me, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

Now Clay Shirky -- himself an academic -- has written a wonderful and comprehensive rebuttal of the piece, explaining why complaints of "anti-elitism" are misplaced.

Of course librarians, teachers, and academics don't like the Wikipedia. It works without privelege, which is inimical to the way those professions operate.

This is not some easily fixed cosmetic flaw, it is the Wikipedia's driving force. You can see the reactionary core of the academy playing out in the horror around Google digitizing books held at Harvard and the Library of Congress -- the NY Times published a number of letters by people insisting that real scholarship would still only be possible when done in real libraries. The physical book, the hushed tones, the monastic dedication, and (unspoken) the barriers to use, these are all essential characteristics of the academy today.

It's not that it doesn't matter what academics think of the Wikipedia -- it would obviously be better to have as many smart people using it as possible. The problem is that the only thing that would make the academics happy would be to shoehorn it into the kind of filter, then publish model that is broken, and would make the Wikipedia broken as well.

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"Clay Shirky?s terrific presentation on
Ontologies"

"Clay Shirky?s terrific presentation on
Ontologies" 04/04/2005 02:12 AM

[etech] Day 2 Clay Shirky - Phone as
platform

[etech] Day 2 Clay Shirky - Phone as
platform 03/17/2005 03:00 AM
Clay begins a segment on tech and education. He says he thinks of his group at NYU as "The Department of the Recently Possible." A few years ago they noticed that students were increasingly integrating phones into their apps. So they started looking into it. One experiment: PacManhattan that mates the urban grid and the game grid. The runners are controlled by people in a control room via mobile phones. DodgeBall was an experiment in mobile social networking. "Mobile phones are the first things since keys that everyone carries," Clay says, citing Marko Ahtisaari. DodgeBall alerted him that there was...

Shirky: The Possibility of Spectrum As A
Public Good

Shirky: The Possibility of Spectrum As A
Public Good 08/14/2004 08:48 PM
long piece in defense of opening up more spectrum .. The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good .. Clay

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Shirky: Cameraphones are today's
Gutenberg press

Shirky: Cameraphones are today's
Gutenberg press 05/11/2004 11:59 AM
Clay Shirky has written an excellent entry on the appearance of unmediated photos from the Iraqi front on a Friendster-like service called YAFRO. He likens this -- and other instances of undmediated communication -- to the Protestant Reformation.

The spread of images from Iraq, both relatively plain ones like most of what's on the YAFRO blogs to the horrifying images of torture and abuse from the Abu Ghraib prison are all part of the removal of bottlenecks that will change the political structure in ways we can't predict.

And it isn't just military affairs, its politics and business and everything else, from attempts to coordinate evidence of Apple's manufacturing errors (previously handled case-by-case, but now becoming a kind of grass-rooots class action protest, to Apple's horror) to the distributed amicus brief on the SCO case conducted by the Linux community to the recent right of Americans to get their medical records on request and within 30 days to the publication of spoilers for popular TV shows. (Read this last link now — its from the Times and goes away in 5 days, and although on the surface its about TV, its really a musing on life in a fully disclosed culture.)

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[etech] Clay Shirky: Ontologies and Tags

[etech] Clay Shirky: Ontologies and Tags 03/17/2005 03:00 AM
Clay talks about how taxonomies always have values built in. Even the periodic table's "noble gases" division reflects an assumption about the "essential" state of elements. He points to the Dewey Decimal System's skewed religion category. [Yikes! I've been doing that, too! I probably heard it from Clay first. I will attribute it from now on. Ack!] Even the Library of Congress puts the Balkan Peninsula and African on equal footing because it's measuring the number of books on the shelves. The categorization reflects not the ideas but the physical storage. He points out, that even though Yahoo has cross...

Clay Shirky tried to use some crippled
software to rip a DVD, and it didn't
work.

Clay Shirky tried to use some crippled
software to rip a DVD, and it didn't
work. 03/31/2005 10:58 PM
Clay Shirky tried to use some crippled software to rip a DVD, and it didn't work. The software was apparently written by legally paranoid people who are trying to diguise their paranoia by blaming The Man. The law does not forbid software from copying unencrypted DVDs (all burned DVDs are unencrypted) -- hence the existence of Nero, Popcorn, etc. It is a shame that so much voluntarily crippled software and hardware is out there, but let's not lay all the blame on the law.

Shirky: Wikipedia is better than
Brittanica on net-centric axes

Shirky: Wikipedia is better than
Brittanica on net-centric axes 01/05/2005 07:09 PM
Cory Doctorow: Clay Shirky's posted more about Wikipedia on Many2Many, responding to danah boyd's post about how Wikipedia won't be an encylopedia. The thing Clay really nails this time in the idea that "new media don't succeed because they're like the old media, only better: they succeed because they're worse than the old media at the stuff the old media is good at, and better at the stuff the old media are bad at."

And of course, sometimes Wikipedia is better, since, as with the Indian Ocean tsunami example, Britannica simply has no offering. So, at the margin, a casual user who wants free access to a Web site that offers a communally-compiled and non-authoritative overview of a recent event will prefer the Wikipedia to nothing, which is what Britannica offers. In this case, Wikipedia comes out on top, and walking along several of those axes like cost, availability, topicality, and breadth of coverage, Wikipedia has the advantage, and in many cases, that advantage is increasing with time

Now Britannica doesn't want this to be true (god, do they not want this to be true) and so they try to create litmus tests around authoritativeness -- "WARNING: Do not read anything that does not come from an institutional source!" But this is as silly as audiophiles dismissing the MP3 format because it wasn't an improvement in audio quality, missing entirely that the package of "moderate quality+improved cost and distribution" was what made the format great. Considering MP3 as nothing more than a lossy compression scheme missed the bundle of services that it enabled.

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"Gothamist Interviews: Clay Shirky,
Internet Technologist"

"Gothamist Interviews: Clay Shirky,
Internet Technologist" 04/12/2004 10:00 PM

Gothamist Interviews: Clay Shirky,
Internet Technologist

Gothamist Interviews: Clay Shirky,
Internet Technologist 04/10/2004 08:47 AM
Gothamist has an excellent interview with Clay Shirky today .. intervju

gothamist.com/interview/archives/2004/04/09/clay_shirky_int ernet_technologist.php
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Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where
Cypherpunks Fail

Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where
Cypherpunks Fail 12/18/2003 11:52 AM
scubacuda writes "Clay Shirky has an interesting take on encryption: 'The RIAA is succeeding where the Cypherpunks failed, convincing users to trade a broad ...

Shirky: stupid (c) laws block me from
publishing own work online

Shirky: stupid (c) laws block me from
publishing own work online 04/02/2005 09:18 AM

Xeni @ Boing Boing Blog

Shirky: stupid (c) laws block me from publishing own work online

Clay Shirky tells Boing Boing:

Welcome to the Copyfight. So, at Etech this year, I gave a talk entitled Ontology is Overrated. I want to put a transcript up online, and Mary Hodder, who recorded the talk, graciously agreed to give me a copy of the video.

When she came by NYC last week, she dropped off a DVD, which I then wanted to convert to AVI (the format used by my transcription service.) I installed ffmpeg and tried to convert the material, at which point I got an error message which read "To comply with copyright laws, DVD device input is not allowed." Except, of course, there are no copyright laws at issue here, since I'M THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER.

Got that? I am in possession of a video, of me, shot by a friend, copied to a piece of physical media given to me as a gift. In the video, I am speaking words written by me, and for which I am the clear holder of the copyright. I am working with said video on a machine I own. Every modern legal judgment concerning copyright, from the Berne Convention to the Betamax case, is on my side. AND I CAN'T MAKE A COPY DIRECTLY FROM THE DEVICE. This is because copyright laws do not exist to defend the moral rights of copyright holders -- they exist to help enforce artificial scarcity.

Copyright holders in my position, who want to use Creative Commons licensing to share material, are treated as pathological cases, because we're not behaving in the extortionate manner that current regulations are designed to protect.

I've gotten the copy another way, and the transcript will go up, but this is the state of the world, circa 2005: I can be prevented from copying my own words from my own devices, precisely because I want to share them freely, a use the law is perfectly prepared to regard as irrelevant.

Yes. Welcome to the copyfight. The scary thing is that more and more people are beginning to think it is NORMAL not to be able to do what Clay is upset about not being able to do.

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Clay Shirky talks about the RIAA forcing
people to adopt Encryption

Clay Shirky talks about the RIAA forcing
people to adopt Encryption 12/18/2003 02:28 PM
I have always been intrigued with encryption and use PGP on select e-mail from time to time and understand the...

Boing Boing: Shirky: stupid (c) laws
block me from publishing own work online

Boing Boing: Shirky: stupid (c) laws
block me from publishing own work online 04/01/2005 05:23 PM
Clay Shirky rants about the absurd US copyright laws that are preventing him from copying his own media .. Clay Shirky tried to use some crippled software to rip a DVD, and it didn't work .. Boing Boing

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only-latest-0.01

only-latest-0.01 11/04/2003 05:16 AM

The Latest In Lie Detecting

The Latest In Lie Detecting 11/05/2003 02:55 AM
Everybody knows that the old polygraph test is a joke that isn't particularly accurate. So, the next question is whether or not it's possible to build a system that can actually catch people telling a lie? It looks like there are a lot of different projects underway to invent the next generation of lie detector. Researchers are trying out all different methods, many of them sponsored by the Department of Defense. There are certainly a number of ethical issues with "looking into someone's mind", but the researchers appear to have come to terms with those issues (or, perhaps we should test them on their own machines to see how they feel on that issue...).

the latest Blu-ray roadmap

the latest Blu-ray roadmap 08/03/2004 09:26 PM
Sony showed the latest Blu-ray roadmap in Japan (scroll down, the images are in English). I'm glad to see that they're considering advanced codecs and their focus on "absolute best quality video" (does that mean 1080p?). The bad news is that the Blu-ray movie format is not finished, so the $4,000 Blu-ray players that people already bought probably won't be able to play Blu-ray movies (suckers!).

What’s New in Latest Adobe CS

What’s New in Latest Adobe CS 04/11/2005 11:25 AM

latest news...

latest news... 03/24/2005 04:41 AM
Welcome to my desktop

mikebutler.editthispage.com
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"latest reports"

"latest reports" 12/29/2004 03:31 AM

The latest works

The latest works 07/13/2004 07:06 PM
Tons of crazy optical illusions .. motion-related illusions

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Apple's Latest

Apple's Latest 06/28/2004 10:06 AM

Heading this morning to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, where Steve Jobs will deliver the keynote. There's never any WiFi connectivity inside the hall at such things, so I'll be letting you know later what's what. Deflectors on full: Entering Reality Distortion Field...

MCI to consider latest $8.9m Qwest bid

MCI to consider latest $8.9m Qwest bid 04/04/2005 08:26 AM
Computer Business Review Apr 4 2005 12:25PM GMT

Next big thing--or the latest fad?

Next big thing--or the latest fad? 03/31/2005 11:29 PM
ZDNet Apr 1 2005 12:20AM GMT

The Latest On The Father Of The DVD

The Latest On The Father Of The DVD 06/28/2004 05:22 AM
A year and a half ago, we wrote about Warren Lieberfarb getting fired from Warner Brothers. Lieberfarb is often credited as the "father of the DVD," who fought long and hard to get everyone on the same page to offer the DVD. Newsweek is now running an article looking at the story a year and a half later, where Lieberfarb is still not particularly liked in the industry he helped save. The article also has the overall background story of how he got warring parties together in order to build the DVD. While he's still fighting with Time Warner over his compensation, he's now working for Microsoft on the next generation of DVD technologies. It would have been a lot more impressive if he would have taken his deal making skills and energy to get the entertainment industry to realize the power of peer-to-peer networking, rather than just trying to rehash his last success story. The story is positioned as if Lieberfarb realized the importance of getting everyone together on this particular "disruptive" technology. It's too bad he doesn't appear to be paying attention to the much bigger disruptive technology that's out there.

Latest OS Updates

Latest OS Updates 03/20/2003 04:19 PM

Wolfe’s Latest

Wolfe’s Latest 06/06/2004 01:51 AM
I just finished reading The Knight, by Gene Wolfe, one of only two or three living authors whose works I’ll pick up without regard to reviews or word-of-mouth...

Latest W3C publications

Latest W3C publications 02/25/2003 10:16 AM
The following documents have been published recently by the W3C: SVG Printing Requirements, OWL Language Reference, DOM Level 3 Events, Voice XML 2.0 (Candidate Recommendation), and XML Protocol Abstract Model

Latest SP2 News

Latest SP2 News 08/18/2004 03:25 AM

Madonna's Latest Self, a Mix of Her Old
Ones

Madonna's Latest Self, a Mix of Her Old
Ones 05/26/2004 11:57 AM
On the first date of her Re-Invention World Tour, Madonna often found herself shadowboxing with her own past lives.

The Latest in Bluetooth

The Latest in Bluetooth 04/14/2005 01:43 PM
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Latest Scam: Pay Us For Using @

Latest Scam: Pay Us For Using @ 08/17/2004 03:23 PM
TheRegister has picked up one of the more amusing scam emails apparently making the rounds. It's not entirely clear how much they're actually asking for (the quoted email shows a few different amounts), but those behind the scam are suggesting that they've copyright ed the "@" symbol and users need to pay (somewhere around $10 to $20) for an unlimited one-year license. The thing is... some people might actually fall for something like this.

RSS: The Latest Feed

RSS: The Latest Feed 12/27/2004 06:52 AM
RSS: The Latest Feed by Judith Wusteman
http://www.ucd.i e/wusteman/lht/wusteman-rss.html

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The number of library-related RSS and Atom applications is increasing daily. But, as yet, the formats and technology involved are far from stable. This article looks at the current state of the field, discusses future developments and considers implications for the library. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation.
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