(1) "We've always been able to say 'oh no, we don't mean you, Saudi Arabia,'" said Shirky.
(2) Does it bother you that Jeff Jarvis and Clay Shirky have many more Twitter followers than you?
(3) The exchange will then be posted in a form similar to this one previously done by the Guardian with Clay Shirky.
(4) As the writer Clay Shirky put it, Democrats who respond to Trump by patiently noting his contradictions and untruths are making a category error: “We’ve brought fact-checkers to a culture war”.
(5) Updated at 3.24pm BST 3.17pm BST How data can help keep communities safe Emmanuel Kala of Ushahidi (which if I recall is a project in which Clay Shirky had a hand, at least as a midwife).
(6) What I've tried to do in my reviews is engage seriously with these bullshit concepts, as if they were serious – to see whether an idea such as "cognitive surplus", of which Clay Shirky is very fond, has any meaning at all.
(7) To the internet commentator Clay Shirky , by contrast, America's interest in using internet freedom to undermine autocracies is "acknowledged internally and understood externally.
(8) Clay Shirky has written, in response to people who say the internet is destroying print, books, newspapers etc, that it is "the largest group of people who care about reading and writing ever assembled in history".
(9) In comments made at the Guardian last week, the web guru Clay Shirky said: "Information doesn't want to be free.
(10) Shirky says: "The real threat to internet freedom isn't from Iran saying we're going to disconnect and build an alternate internet – that's a desperate act.
(11) In the turbulence of the coming years – when, as the new media academic Clay Shirky puts it, the "old model is breaking faster than the new stuff gets put in place" – all media may come to rely on some form of medium-term subsidy.
(12) Shirky, the charismatic guru of New York University, told her that he viewed the smartphone as an explosive device that can get at you at any time.
(13) "It's very difficult to weaponise social media," says Shirky – to choose the battles you want to wage, so as to support openness in Iran, say, while overlooking abuses in South Korea or Thailand, and not aggravating the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), for whom a free and unmonitorable internet is less a human right and more a grave business threat.
(14) Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky, 2008 Here Comes Everybody showed how the web had democratised group interaction.
(15) As Clay Shirky's new book Cognitive Surplus argues, the internet, computer games and mobile devices are creating a new generation of active producers and sharers of content, rather than passive consumers.
(16) You are a feared reviewer of other technology pundits' books … you demolished Jeff Jarvis's book Public Parts , called Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography "pedestrian", you regularly ridicule internet consultant Clay Shirky via Twitter – do you enjoy a fight?
(17) Brin and Page came just in time to bring their key insight to the critical problem created by the internet: search and discovery – or, in the words of New York University's Professor Clay Shirky, "filter failure".
(18) Shirky, a theatre director turned internet evangelist, claimed communal websites such as Wikipedia made traditional institutions redundant, and predicted that bloggers would soon usurp mainstream news outlets as distributors of information.
(19) One of the interesting things about her film is the way it reveals that even the first generation evangelists for the liberating possibilities of the new technology, like Jimmy Wales or Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody ) have slightly shifted in some of their rhetoric.
(20) We are living at a time when – as the American academic Clay Shirky puts it – "the old models are breaking faster than the new models can be put into place".
Smirky
Definition:
(a.) Smirk; smirking.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Hathaway worked her derrière off," the Washington Post's Hank Stuever wrote , "[but] Franco came off like that lacrosse boy you wish your daughter didn't hang out with so much, sort of heavy-lidded and smirky."