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What Does it Mean to Make 5 Million Maps? Platial's Legacy
The three founders said they were taking advice from people like Clay Shirky , Anselm Hook and Arturo Duran . Blogger had just been bought by Google the year before and WordPress had just launched. Now people are making maps all over the web, including on Google's MyMaps service. It's not every day that a business shuts down but declares itself a success in helping kick off an unstoppable movement to change the world. Community mapping service Platial announced this week that it is turning off its servers and asking users to move their content onto
ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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Pew Report Interview
Here's how I am featured: "Here are some of the respondents: Clay Shirky, Esther Dyson, Doc Searls, Nicholas Carr, Susan Crawford, David Clark, Jamais Cascio, Peter Norvig, Craig Newmark, Hal Varian, Howard Rheingold, Andreas Kluth, Jeff Jarvis, Andy Oram, David Sifry, Marc Rotenberg, John Pike, Andrew Nachison, Anthony Townsend, Ethan Zuckerman, Stephen Downes, Rebecca MacKinnon, Jim Warren, Sandra Brahman, Seth Finkelstein, Jerry Berman, and Stewart Baker." No doubt we will become worse at doing some things ('more stupid') requiring rote memory of information that is now available
Half an Hour - Saturday, February 20, 2010
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The Internet in 2020 - What the Experts Predict
Most experts agree that Google won't make us stupid. Will Google Make us Stupid? Nicholas Carr was wrong: Google does not make us stupid ( http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google ). Nicholas Carr was right: Google makes us stupid. Indeed, 76% of technology stakeholders and critics interviewed by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University believe that the Internet and search engines will enhance human intelligence by 2020. For this new report , the Pew Research Center
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, February 19, 2010
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  • [2b2k] Clay Shirky, info overload, and when filters increase the size of what’s filtered
    Clay Shirky’s masterful talk at the Web 2.0 Clay explains in greater detail in this two part CJR interview: 1 2 ] Clay traces information overload to the 15th century, but others have taken it back earlier than that, and there’s even a quotation from Seneca (4 BCE) that can be pressed into service: “What is the point of having countless books and libraries whose titles the owner could scarcely read through in his whole lifetime? Expo in NYC last September — “It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure”
    Joho the Blog - Sunday, January 31, 2010
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  • Clay Shirky - The Observer Interview
    The Observer (UK) interviews Shirky. . But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful. Occasionally people contact me to ask, "Are you the same Clay Shirky I was at school with?" This Much I Know John Hind The Observer, Sunday 15 February 2009
    Wirearchy - Sunday, February 15, 2009
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  • The Sky is Falling!
    We've had Michael Hirschorn's Atlantic Monthly piece forecasting the demise of The New York Times by May, Jack Shafer weighs in at Slate , James Surowiecki in The New Yorker , Clay Shirky raises some very interesting points, and today Fred Wilson joins the chorus with My Focus Group of One . A simple Google search for terms like "death of newspapers" or "end of print" will yield millions of results. It's been a busy week for the "death of newspapers" camp. A
    OReilly Radar - Friday, January 9, 2009
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  • How Google Can Combat Content Farms
    In my recent post about the rise of content farms like Demand Media and the current incarnation of AOL, I posited that Google (and search in general) risks becoming less relevant as the Web gets drowned in lesser quality content. The solution is of course for Google and other search engines to find better ways to surface quality content , whether that be from traditional news media, blogs or even Demand Media ( not all of its content is poor quality ). This is due to the scale at which these content farms are operating at - Demand Media alone pumps out 4,000 new pieces of content every day .
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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  • Sense-making with PKM
    Clay Shirky has brought up the concept of a cognitive surplus that is a result of the leisure time that we gained about fifty years ago. Shirky says that television collectively takes up about 200 billion hours in the US per year. Google Reader Note: This is a revised HTML version of previous PDF’s posted on the site , which should make it easier for sharing. PKM
    Learning and Working on the Web - Thursday, March 12, 2009
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  • Four short links: 14 Jan 2009
    Interview with Clay Shirky and Part 2 - from Columbia Journalism Review . This is about the future of newspapers, the fiction of "information overload", the bogosity of Luddism, and a fine fine rebuttal to Nick Carr's Google stupidity. Tags: design google journalism map twitte Something beautiful, something informative, something mindblowing, something revealing: something for everyone in today's link set. Trees and Forests on Old Russian Maps - old maps, like old books, are works of art.
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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  • Informal learning hot list for February 2009
    Clay Shirky Increasingly, I find myself turning to searches of known sources like these in lieu of open-ended Google searches. Wouldn’t it be cool to let the wisdom of your crowd suggest things on the net that merit your attention? It beats threshing a barrage of chaff to locate the kernels of information you want.
    Internet Time - Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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  • The Real-Time Web Is Not Hype: We Are All Traders Now
    friend who runs a financial trading systems business told me that Google was constantly trying to poach his best engineers. As Clay Shirky famously remarked : "It's not information overload. Hype cycles, like all cycles, are getting shorter. People want to be the first to say, "You heard it here first, folks: this or that hot thing you hear about all the time is a bunch of hot air."
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, August 14, 2009
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  • The Internet in 2020 - What the Experts Predict
    Most experts agree that Google won't make us stupid. Will Google Make us Stupid? Nicholas Carr was wrong: Google does not make us stupid ( http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google ). Nicholas Carr was right: Google makes us stupid. Indeed, 76% of technology stakeholders and critics interviewed by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University believe that the Internet and search engines will enhance human intelligence by 2020. For this new report , the Pew Research Center
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, February 19, 2010
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  • A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization
    Conversation: IM + Google Wave: For introduction of Google Wave , an Once again, there are simple, free tools like Google Docs what Clay Shirky calls "cognitive surplus", mental energy that's just Detectors: Google bought the pioneer BLOG A Practical Guide to Implementing Implementing Web 2.0 (aka
    How to Save the World - Friday, May 29, 2009
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