When Clay Shirky speaks—at TED conferences, on Twitter, at NYU, where he focuses on the nexus of Internet and society—people listen. The author of the influential Here Comes Everybody is again driving ...

Last month, Clay Shirky gave a talk (embedded below) at the TED@State conference titled “How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history”. His thesis is that the moment we’re living through is “the ...

The result of groups across the web making an effort to bring the damaging effects of SOPA and PIPA to light has been a nice cross-section of explanatory posts made to educate the masses, and what ...

"Historically, we have overestimated the value of access to information, and we have always underestimated the value of access to each other." — Clay Shirky (TED) ...

"Historically, we have overestimated the value of access to information, and we have always underestimated the value of access to each other." — Clay Shirky Technology-enabled collaboration draws us ...

Social media guru Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" — the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy contributing to the web in our small ways, we're building a ...

TED has a great Q&A with New York University professor Clay Shirky. He drops this insightful snippet about Twitter and its role in Iran, right now. I've been saying this for a while — as a medium gets ...