One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.
Clay ShirkyThink about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.
Clay ShirkyThe future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
Clay ShirkyIt is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
Clay ShirkyPublishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.
Clay Shirky