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Clay Shirky at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.

Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His columns and writings appeared in Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Wired.

Contents

1 Early years
2 Career

2.1 Shirky's Law
2.2 Examples
2.3 Published works
2.4 Other works

3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Early years

Career

Shirky's Law

This is an observation originally made about the Blogosphere by Clay Shirky [link] that has been adaged by Hugh MacLeod [link] as:

:Equality, fairness, opportunity: pick two.

Examples

Although coined to explain the Zipf distribution of blog attention, it is trivial to expand the law to other systems. For example, in economic systems:

Fairness and Opportunity: Capitalism, which will always have inequal distribution of wealth.
Equality and Fairness: Communism, which must not allow opportunities for inequality.
Equality and Opportunity: Socialism, which allows competition, but unfairly (see Libertarianism) redistributes the wealth of successful participants.

Published works

The Internet by E-Mail (1994) - ISBN 1562762400
Voices from the Net (1995) - ISBN 1562763032
P2P Networking Overview (2001) - ISBN 0596001851
Planning for Web Services: Obstacles and Opportunities (2003) - ISBN 0596003641

Other works

Clay Shirky: [Ontology is Overrated]
[Ontology is Overrated]: Links, Tags, and Post-hoc Metadata - a presentation (mp3) from the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference held in San Diego, California, March 14-17, 2005.
[Phone as Platform]: Lessons from ITP - a presentation (mp3) from the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference held in San Diego, California, March 14-17, 2005.
Clay Shirky [A Group is its Own Worst Enemy] on Groups and communities.

References

External links

Clay Shirky [homepage]
Clay Shirky’s writings on the [O'Reilly Network]
Short article about Shirky in [Wired]
Critique of Shirky's article about Ontologies: [Clay Shirky's Viewpoints are Overrated]
[Clay Shirky] on [Many2Many Blog]
[Fame vs. Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content]

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