Gothamist Interviews: Clay Shirky, Internet Technologist
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Internet Technologist"
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04/12/2004 10:00 PMwhy i like clay shirky
why i like clay shirky
04/11/2004 07:43 PMhis gothamist interview is my love of new york with logic substituting
for romance
"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 AMClay 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...
[etech] Clay Shirky: Ontologies and Tags
[etech] Clay Shirky: Ontologies and Tags
03/17/2005 03:00 AMClay 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.
Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where
Cypherpunks Fail
Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where
Cypherpunks Fail
12/18/2003 11:52 AMscubacuda writes "Clay Shirky has an interesting take on encryption:
'The RIAA is succeeding where the Cypherpunks failed, convincing users
to trade a broad ...
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 PMI have always been intrigued with encryption and use PGP on select
e-mail from time to time and understand the...
RosettaNet names new chief technologist
(Internet Week)
RosettaNet names new chief technologist
(Internet Week)
10/17/2002 04:10 PMINTERNET ROUNDUP: Clay flowers
INTERNET ROUNDUP: Clay flowers
07/25/2004 08:48 PMThe Nation - Thailand Jul 26 2004 0:06AM GMT
Gothamist
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11/11/2003 05:55 AMGothamist events calendar .. Gothamist ..
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gothamist roundup of RNC NYC
gothamist roundup of RNC NYC
08/27/2004 04:05 PMi'm just bummed out i can't be there to witness everyone being annoyed
by tourists
Fixed Income Research Technologist -
Perl, Unix
Fixed Income Research Technologist -
Perl, Unix
03/06/2004 01:57 AMHuntress IT - United Kingdom, City, London (2004-03-03)
The Latest Trend in Hollywood - Telling
Everyone You Have a Personal
Technologist
The Latest Trend in Hollywood - Telling
Everyone You Have a Personal
Technologist
06/24/2004 03:29 AMNew service targets busy executives, celebrities and the technically
challenged by offering one-on-one Personal Technology consulting,
including everything from choosing the right cell phone to installing
a home theater system. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2004]
Gothamist launches recipes
Gothamist launches recipes
07/28/2004 09:28 AMYesterday Gothamist launched a new food section that will feature a
weekly column/recipe from Joe DeSalazar, founder and chef of foodie.
Using Thomas Keller's Butter Poached Lobster recipe as a starting
point, Joe's created Butter Poached Lobster & Peach Salad Avocado,
Mint, Frisee. It sounds delicious and like something I might have to
try and create. I'm sure I'll be checking in weekly to see what else
Joe concocts.
gothamist roundup of NY Bloggers event
gothamist roundup of NY Bloggers event
05/04/2004 12:32 PMa billion trackbacks and a few useful comments
EFF Staff Technologist Seth Schoen to
Teach Trusted Computing Class
EFF Staff Technologist Seth Schoen to
Teach Trusted Computing Class
01/19/2004 10:42 AMPre-register for all-day class on what's actually involved in trusted
computing technologies.
News and Events: Gothamist/Six Apart
Happy Hour in NYC
News and Events: Gothamist/Six Apart
Happy Hour in NYC
03/22/2005 05:03 PMNYC-based Gothamist launches LA
offshoot, LAist
NYC-based Gothamist launches LA
offshoot, LAist
07/01/2004 08:26 PMThe LA counterpart blog to Gothamist and Chicagoist hasn't been
properly launched yet, but -- what's that you say? I can peek behind
the kimono here?
LinkClay on NYC
Clay on NYC
04/09/2004 04:12 PMThis is a fantastic interview with Clay about NYC. Funny, brilliant,
twisty in its insights....
The latest Shirky
The latest Shirky
02/18/2004 12:13 PMA couple of pictures. Insert your "Awwwwwwww" here:
_____________________. Awwwwwwwwwww!...
It's a Shirky girl!
It's a Shirky girl!
02/11/2004 09:36 PMThe 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....
Gothamist: Breaking News: Jerry Orbach
Films His Last Scenes as Lennie Briscoe
Gothamist: Breaking News: Jerry Orbach
Films His Last Scenes as Lennie Briscoe
04/25/2004 09:41 AMJerry Orbach shoots his last scenes for Law and Order .. Gothamist
scoops the world .. leaving Law &
Order
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Clay-riffic
Clay-riffic
07/08/2004 01:58 PM
"Untitled
Inspirational Memoir" by American [White] Idol '03
Clay Aiken hits
#9 on the Amazon bestseller chart. It will be published (presumably
with a title) in November. Order yours today. Or, run home and mail
off your Great American Novel -- or at least your own dashed-off
U.I.M. -- to
Random
House, publisher to the
stars.
Jonas on Clay on all of Us
Jonas on Clay on all of Us
05/05/2004 04:12 AMHere's Jonas' reaction to Clay's latest piece - on 'Situated
Software'. I had a completely
different reaction. I see situated software - as teh same as
what I call "activity based computing."
Inspired by Don
Norman's work - I really think activity based computing happens
when digital lifestyle aggregation is a norm.
Here's Jonas' post.....
Communicate.
Clay Shirky just published an essay
on “Situated Software”, software tailored towards a specific
situation.
Part of the future I believe I’m seeing is a change
in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I’m calling
situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular
social situation or context. This way of making software is in
contrast with what I’ll call the Web School (the paradigm I
learned to program in), where scalability, generality, and
completeness were the key virtues.
Shirky touches on the very foundation the whole “Social
Software” craze is all about – communication. He
acknowledges, correctly, the basic foundation of it –
communication.
Communication is cool. Everyone communicates, and sends verbal and
non-verbal factoids at almost every waking second. The amazing part
about mankind, and one of those things that not only set us apart from
“lower” mammals and other life-forms, is our need and will
to communicate, no matter what. Deprived of our primary means of
communication, that is the verbal way, we invent and use secondary and
tertiary means. Hearing and speech impaired use sign language, we use
body language and simple pictorials to communicate, and if that all is
taken away from us, we still seek and find a way.
Which by the way, also explains the withdrawal symptoms and
“addictions” to email, Everquest, or IRC. We communicate. If taken away, we lose a form
of communication, which is – as everyone who lost hearing or
speech or vision will attest to – is something rather
uncomfortable and painful. Losing this channel of communication
equates to a loss of senses, sensory deprivation, and comes with all
the psychological side-effects, such an event has to the affected.
In a way, communication is like lightning. It will always find the
easiest way, no matter how. Deprived of simple ways to strike, the
next easier path is taken, and so on. Successful “social
software” is a lightning rod for such communication. It provides
an easier way to convey factoids to other individuals. Take the whole
“social network” misnomer, for an example. Friendships were
expressed on online communities long before Friendster or Orkut. The
WELL, heading into its 21st year of existence,
is full of verbal and non-verbal displays or friendship and
acquaintanceship. Or animosities, outright hate, curiosity. Name it,
and it was there.
The problem is, telling it that way won’t get one quoted in
eWeek. It’s one thing to call oneself an “expert” in
Social Networking or a Visionary, or a Pioneer. Passersby stand in
awe, the industry rejoices and jumps at the possibility of raking in
VC money, and because it sounds academic, few questions are asked.
Simply sounds better than “someone who knows, that people
talk”, doesn’t it?
Take the “backchannel” discussion for a second. There are
proponents and opponents of … communication. The basic
understanding is simple – someone, somewhere, uses computerized
means, such as IRC or AIM, or a WiKi, to comment in realtime on something.
That something are mostly talks and presentations in conferences.
Before IRC or IM was discovered, whispers were
used, body language, such as yawning, applauding, rolling of eyes, or
demonstrative snoring. With wireless networks starting to fill
conference venues, the lightning strike of communication sought and
found an easier, less prone to misscommunication, way in IRC and IM.
Skinned of the multiple layers of new words and stripped of the
means, backchannel opponents and proponents are back to the basics
– communication is good or bad, depending what’s it all
about and who it is all about. Proponents point out the less
disruptive and more constructive nature of IRC
communications, opponents focus mostly on its exclusionary nature,
both neglecting to acknowledge that before IRC
and IM, other means were employed, which were equally exclusionary and
similarly constructive – those things commonly called the
“hallway track”.
Yes, speaking in new words, or calling ordinary things by academic
sounding names has its advantages. Most importantly, it introduces a
new lawyer of discussion. “I don’t really like it, when
people talk about me behind my back” simply sounds less mature
than “I think backchannels are useless”.
Communication is old. Providing better means to communicate and
convey accurate factoids makes for a potential way to channel
conversations into a system. It’s that simple, and I have no idea
why we need to make it more complicated than that.
[
a preponderance of evidence - What
Willis Wuz' Talkin' 'Bout]
Shirky on Spectrum Ownership
Shirky on Spectrum Ownership
08/14/2004 04:55 PMShirky: 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 AMClay 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....
Clay on Situated Software
Clay on Situated Software
04/09/2004 04:12 PMClay's being brilliant again (damn him!), this time on the rise of
software that works because it isn't intended to scale. This is not
only a trend, it's a clarifying meme....
Clay Cements the Semantic
Clay Cements the Semantic
11/10/2003 11:16 PMClay takes apart the Semantic Web, starting small and heading towards
the big and beautiful. He ends by pointing out that metadata is
politics and that there is a virtue to messiness. It's a brilliant
piece and I'd be much happier about it if the ending points weren't
ones I've been trying to write about for a few months. Damn that
Shirky!...
Antigravity has feet of clay
Antigravity has feet of clay
02/05/2005 09:26 PMThanks to Gnomie Paul Wright for this item. Space agency report is a
downer for gravity-control researchers. “Could astronauts take a
leaf out of H. G. Wells’s book The First Men in the Moon, and
use spacecraft propelled by antigravity devices? Some see the idea as
science fiction, but major space agencies take it seriously. In 2001,
the European Space Agency (ESA) commissioned two scientists to
evaluate schemes for gravity control. They have concluded that,…
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Skip this rant and read Shirky
Skip this rant and read Shirky
12/03/2003 07:33 AMShirky: 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 AMCory 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.
LinkShirky: Cameraphones are today's
Gutenberg press
Shirky: Cameraphones are today's
Gutenberg press
05/11/2004 11:59 AMClay 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.)
LinkShirky: Wikipedia is better than
Brittanica on net-centric axes
Shirky: Wikipedia is better than
Brittanica on net-centric axes
01/05/2005 07:09 PMCory 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.
LinkShirky: The Possibility of Spectrum As A
Public Good
Shirky: The Possibility of Spectrum As A
Public Good
08/14/2004 08:48 PMlong piece in defense of opening up more spectrum .. The Possibility
of Spectrum as a Public Good ..
Clay
shirky.com/writings/spectrum_public_good.html
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LMAO. What the hell? (Clay Aiken) -
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05/26/2004 01:23 AMClay Aiken bovs'd all over these tees .. photoshop job ..
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Clay pigeon shooter goes out with a bang
(Reuters)
Clay pigeon shooter goes out with a bang
(Reuters)
04/27/2004 06:07 AMReuters - Friends of a champion Irish clay pigeon shooter have
fulfilled his dying wish by packing his ashes into
shotgun cartridges and blasting his remains over firing ranges around
the world.
Rabid Clay Mates handling criticism
Rabid Clay Mates handling criticism
07/28/2004 08:11 PM
Wilmington News Journal features writer Ryan Cormier
wrote a review of a Clay Aiken concert today. Word
reached "
The Clayboard" with a link to
Ryan's
newspaper-hosted blog which then
got slammed with angry comments from Clay Mates. There are
other News Blogs from
this paper; they even cover scandals and legal transgressions by
elected officials. But Ryan? He's done touched a nerve.
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