Adrian SegarClay Shirky and my mission
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/02/clay
(Roughly) Daily“A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product”*…
A quarter of a century ago Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia‘s founder, articulated its vision– one into which it has impressively grown: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.”
On the ocassion of its birthday this month, Caitlin Dewey takes stock…
Happy birthday to Wikipedia, which is now old enough to rent a car without extra charges … but faces new (and newly urgent) threats from AI and political polarization. As a palate cleanser, should those bum you out (the second, in particular, is very grim/good), may I then suggest this “entirely non-comprehensive list of life principles” learned from 20 years of editing Wikipedia. [Scientific American / Financial Times / The Wikipedian]…
From her wonderful newsletter, Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends. All three are eminently worth reading.
* Clay Shirky, who went on to observe that “Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration,” but at the same time that: “We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.”
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As we treasure– and support— treasures, we might recall that it was on this date in 1885 that LaMarcus Adna Thompson received the first patent for a true “switchback railroad”– or , as we know it, a roller coaster. Thompson had designed the ride in 1881, and opened it on Coney Island in 1884. (The “hot dog” had been invented, also at Coney Island, in 1867, so was available to trouble the stomachs of the very first coaster riders.)
Thompson’s original Switchback Railway at Coney Island (source) #AI #artificialIntelligence #CaitlinDewey #ClayShirky #culture #encyclopedia #history #JimmyWales #LaMarcusAdnaThompson #polarization #politicalPolarization #politics #rollerCoaster #switchbackRailroad #Technology #Wikipedia
Clay Shirky and my mission
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N-gated Hacker News🥱 Wow, Clay Shirky is back with a riveting tale from 2004 about how software can be, wait for it, "situated"—truly groundbreaking stuff from the days when dial-up was still a thing. 🤯 Who would've thought that the real innovation is to build software for specific contexts? Certainly not the rest of the world that's been doing it since, well, forever. 🙄
http://shirky.com/essays/situated-software/ #ClayShirky #SoftwareInnovation #SituatedSoftware #TechHistory #DialUp #HackerNews #ngated
http://shirky.com/essays/situated-software/ #ClayShirky #SoftwareInnovation #SituatedSoftware #TechHistory #DialUp #HackerNews #ngated
Hacker NewsSituated Software – Clay Shirky (2004)
http://shirky.com/essays/situated-software/
#HackerNews #SituatedSoftware #ClayShirky #2004 #TechEssays #DigitalCulture
Clay Shirky and my mission
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Nicol WistreichClay Shirky in 2005: if it’s really a revolution, it doesn’t take us from Point A to Point B. It takes us from Point A to chaos.
“As with the printing press, if it’s really a revolution, it doesn’t take us from Point A to Point B. It takes us from Point A to chaos. The printing press precipitated 200 years of chaos, moving from a world where the Catholic Church was the sort of organizing political force to the Treaty of Westphalia, when we finally knew what the new unit was: the nation state.
“I’m not predicting 200 years of chaos as a result of this [but] 50 years in which loosely coordinated groups are going to be given increasingly high leverage… and institutions are going to come under an increasing degree of pressure, and the more rigidly managed, and the more they rely on information monopolies, the greater the pressure is going to be.”
https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_institutions_vs_collaboration
Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
Clay Shirky and my mission
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/02/clay
Clay Shirky and my mission
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/02/clay
Ecologia Digital#ClayShirky: "The shift to #Bluesky could falter.
Bluesky could fail to find a workable business model. Conservatives joining Bluesky, the better to own the libs, could swamp the conversation. But movement toward a more communal platform has already been swift and vast. Demand for social spaces that are organized around user preferences…may serve as a model for better spaces for political speech and a move away from “scale at all costs” business models."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/opinion/bluesky-x-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f04.bxk8.FS72A8pBOucF&smid=url-share
Bluesky could fail to find a workable business model. Conservatives joining Bluesky, the better to own the libs, could swamp the conversation. But movement toward a more communal platform has already been swift and vast. Demand for social spaces that are organized around user preferences…may serve as a model for better spaces for political speech and a move away from “scale at all costs” business models."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/opinion/bluesky-x-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f04.bxk8.FS72A8pBOucF&smid=url-share
