Topic: Clay Shirky

Infographic: Is Information Overload Over-Hyped?

Have we become a society of whiners when it comes to information overload? The time management field is overflowing with advice touting that more self-discipline is needed to control time allocations. Should we just "man-up" and ...READ»

Scaling Startups

How can startups develop a distinctive culture, and sustain it as they grow? Are the characteristics that define today's high potential technology startups the same as five or ten years ago? And does the current environment of low-cost infrastructure and open information sharing give new companies an advantage?READ»

Guy Kawasaki on Twitter Brawls, Authenticity, and How He Plans to Win The Influence Project

Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of the news aggregator Alltop.com, the former chief evangelist for Apple, and author of, among other titles, The Art of the Start. At the end of The Influence Project’s first week, Kawasaki sits ...READ»

Ikea's Animalistic Robotic Furniture Moves for You, Humps Your Leg

From NYU's ITP spring show this week, we've already told you about 3-D pop-up books with augmented reality and how cell phones could one day replace game controllers. Now Adam Lassy, another engineer and designer featured at the ...READ»

Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay

For website content publishers and content creators, there’s a debate raging as to the rights and wrongs of curation. While content aggregation has been around for a while with sites using algorithms to find and link to content, ...READ»

Startups: An "Alpha Male Pissing-Contest?"

Why aren't enough women seeking angel and VC money? And why aren't more women-led startups getting funded? Consider these little known facts:Women-run tech startups generate more revenue per invested capital and fail less then those ...READ»

Old Media's "Next" Innovation and the Unauthorized New York TimesRoulette

If you're a gambling man, I would put a fiver on a lot of Web-based April Fool jokes tomorrow being ChatRoulette-related. Andrey Ternovskiy's idea has, over the past three months, made a lot of pervs very happy indeed--not to mention ...READ»

Hot off the Presses: The Newspaper Club Produces--and Prints--a Newspaper at SXSW

A group of designers produced a newspaper during the SXSW conference and printed it on the Austin-American Statesman's press last night.READ»

Where Social Learning Thrives

To benefit from social learning, build a culture that makes learning fun, productive and commonplace, a culture where learning is part of everyday work. Marcia Conner and Steve LeBlanc look at where social learning thrives.READ»

DesigNYC Matches Designers With Non-Profits in Need

A new program aims to serve New York City by matching 10 designers with 10 non-profit organizations for pro-bono work. READ»

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Most People Use the Web to Talk to People Nearby

Ever use email to talk to the person sitting one office down? You're not alone. Most people use the Web to talking to people within their own city, not far-flung contacts, according to a new study by the Hebrew University in ...READ»

Understanding the 4th media revolution

Rupert Murdoch’s comments this week about twitter had me thinking about the rationale behind his statement. Murdoch sees no monetary value and the future for twitter and predicts that the only successful business model on the web ...READ»

The Desktop Manufacturing Revolution

The end of the current production-manufacturing economic model may be on the horizon. But what if nothing's ready to replace it?READ»

The Internet Makes Work for Idle Hands

The radical decentralization of the means of cultural production and distribution it has brought about, that I mentioned in the slidecast in my last post, "Social Begins At Home," has changed the very nature of the audience--of what ...READ»

Opinion Exhaustion: Skittles, President Obama, and the Assault of Everyone

Something new is happening on Skittles.com. The company isn't putting its real estate to work as a marketing platform--singing the vast and socially beneficial aspects of Skittles. Instead, they have turned their homepage over ...READ»

Nova Spivack's Twine Is Red-Hot

Nova Spivack's red-hot site, Twine, uses artificial intelligence to find and store Web info.READ»

Television Viewing, Brain Melting at All-Time High

You would think it was 1997 again, a year without smart phones or the social Web. Despite all the endless chatter about Twitter this and Flickr that and YouTube, iTunes, and Kindle 2.0, the good old boob tube is capturing ...READ»

The Perils and Promise of the Reputation Economy

It's not easy doing business in the reputation economy.READ»

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The Growth of Social Software

More and more of your social interactions are moving online. Here are 10 major cultural implications of social software's growth.READ»

Icebreaking for Geeks -- and More

Feel tongue-tied at conferences? These gizmos will do your networking for you.READ»

Icebreaking for Geeks -- and More

Feel tongue-tied at conferences? These gizmos will do your networking for you.READ»

Nickeled-and-Dimed to Death

A few years ago, experts thought a new pricing model would sweep the Internet in which users would gladly pay a few cents a page for the content that they liked. It was a costly misjudgment.READ»

If Allen Funt Ran for Office

When are candidates going to realize that the Internets is going to make or break them in elections? In the past week, there have been two prime examples of what happens when one candidate gets it and the other doesn't. Now more ...READ»

Autumn in Camden, Maine II

More from PopTech in Maine... I think I can summarize Clay Shirky's presentation on "social software" in just a few words: The most popular Weblogs are a lot more popular than the least popular Weblogs. (This is known as a "Power ...READ»