haniblog » Clay Shirky http://haniblog.com Flame Artist by day. Proud Dad by, uhm, the rest of the time. Lover of everything Apple. Hater of everything Microsoft. Except for the Xbox 360 of course. Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:33:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Thinking the Unthinkable http://haniblog.com/internet/thinking-the-unthinkable?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thinking-the-unthinkable http://haniblog.com/internet/thinking-the-unthinkable#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:53:19 +0000 Hani http://haniblog.com/?p=702

The first time I heard the name Clay Shirky was through a post titled Gin, Television and Social Surplus on Daring Fireball. I watched his Web 2.0 presentation and was struck by his clarity of thought, the way his arguments made sense and the way I would go “Yeah!” at every salient point he would make.

Again, through Daring Fireball, I read Shirky’s latest essay on newspapers, journalism and the revolution we’re going through. This is a must read. It compares the state of online publishing to what happened around 1500 A.D., right after Gutenberg invented movable type and the printing press. Newspapers, advertising, walled-garden content, micropayments, subscriptions… it’s all there in this essay.

If you have some free time I would highly recommend reading this and then watching Clay Shirky’s videos on YouTube. Even the titles of the videos make you think! How about this one: It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. You immediately have an “A-ha!” moment just reading that title!

I think his book Here Comes Everybody is one I’ll read on holiday.

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