http://netvouz.com/tag/shirky?feed=rss Bookmarks tagged with "shirky" on Netvouz http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/ When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren’t in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it. They are demanding to be lied to. fjordaan Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:59:25 GMT http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000295.html Dare Obasanjo recently wrote about the failure of Kuro5hin, which was originally designed to address perceived problems with the slashdot model fjordaan Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:05:21 GMT http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html WEB > GROUPS Datamaiden Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:01:52 GMT http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/08/03/usergenerated_neologism_indigenous_content.php My class in the fall is called “User-generated”, and it looks, among other things, at the tension surrounding that phrase, and in particular its existence as an external and anxiety-ridden label, by traditional media companies, for the way that advertising can be put next to material not created by Trained Professionals™. fjordaan Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:08:16 GMT http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html fjordaan Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:32:21 GMT http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/delicious-discuss/2004-June/000390.html fjordaan Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:37:50 GMT http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html fjordaan Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:02:18 GMT http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/01/07/lazyweb.html fjordaan Sun, 11 May 2003 13:02:33 GMT