Clay Shirky's Essays

Continuing the pattern of readers adding value to books, not just consuming them, My Mind On Books has posted a webliography of Here Comes Everybody, pulling together links from the book with links...

Suw has a great post on social software, failure, and success over at Strange Attractor.
She was riffing on something from the cognitive surplus talk -- "The normal case of social software is still...

Jay Rosen, a founder of OffTheBus, has written a great piece on how Obama's "bitter" comments got picked up by a citizen journalist, Mayhill Fowler, a 61 year old Obama donor who was at the West Co...

Jay Rosen, a founder of OffTheBus, has written a great piece on how Obama's "bitter" comments got picked up by a citizen journalist, Mayhill Fowler, a 61 year old Obama donor who was at the West Co...

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(This is a lightly edited transcription of a speech I gave at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.)
I
was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a
B...

Britannica Blog launched a series of posts today on Newspapers and the Net. The seed essay in this case is a passage from Nick Carr's The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google about...

One of the common patterns in Here Comes Everybody is lightweight collaboration, not "Let's lock ourselves in a room for 5 days to work together" but "Let's make it easy for an individual to make ...

In the book, and in presentations since, I've talked a lot about the Coalition for a Passenger's Bill of Rights, the group founded by Kate Hanni in early 2007 that lobbied for better treatment of ...

About to go on Ross Reynolds long-form radio interview, The Conversation, to talk about the book. The stream and podcast is here.