Hacker News
- Shirky.com is gone https://web.archive.org/web/20060208093032/http:/www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html 143 comments
- A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) https://web.archive.org/web/20131130191257/http:/www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html 61 comments
- Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (2005) https://web.archive.org/web/20191117162526/http:/shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html 2 comments
- Ontology Is Overrated (2005) http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html 2 comments
- Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (2005) http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html 89 comments
- Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (2009) http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/ 19 comments
- The Collapse of Complex Business Models (2010) http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/ 21 comments
- Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2013/11/healthcare-gov-and-the-gulf-between-planning-and-reality/ 3 comments
- A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html#content 2 comments
- Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html 15 comments
- The Collapse of Complex Business Models http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/ 64 comments
- Not enough women are arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/01/a-rant-about-women/ 88 comments
- Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/11/local-bookstores-social-hubs-and-mutualization/ 20 comments
- The Failure of #amazonfail http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/04/the-failure-of-amazonfail/ 33 comments
- Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/ 37 comments
- Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html 15 comments
- Clay Shirky: Where the Semantic Web gets it wrong http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html 2 comments
- Fame vs. Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content http://www.shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html 3 comments
- A Group is its Own Worst Enemy - Social Software Design http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html 3 comments
Lobsters
- Ontology is Overrated (2005) http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html 5 comments philosophy
- Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy [2003] http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html 2 comments culture , historical , philosophy
- A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: the perils of designing social software http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enemy.html 12 comments programming
- The Times' Paywall and Newsletter Economics - Clay Shirky http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/11/the-times-paywall-and-newsletter-economics/ 5 comments technology
- “When societies fail to respond to reduced circumstances through orderly downsizing, it isn’t because they don’t want to, it’s because they can’t.” http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/ 3 comments reddit.com
- This guy says what many of us, including myself, have been saying for years. "The Collapse of Complex Business Models." http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/ 34 comments business
- Clay Shirky: Help, the Price of Information Has Fallen and it Can't Get Up http://www.shirky.com/writings/information_price.html 14 comments technology
- The cognitive surplus is here and it's getting harnessed in amazing ways. Here comes everybody. http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html 13 comments technology
- "The unthinkable scenario unfolded something like this: The ability to share content wouldn’t shrink, it would grow." http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/ 3 comments technology
- Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/ 17 comments business
- Clay Shirky - "The Semantic Web is a machine for creating syllogisms" http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html 6 comments cogsci
- How the RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html?dupe=with_honor 21 comments programming
- A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: 3 things to accept, and 4 things to design for, when building social software http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html? 10 comments programming
- Shirky: In Praise of Evolvable Systems - Why the WEB became a big thing http://www.shirky.com/writings/evolve.html 3 comments programming
- Micropayments will fail because of mental transaction cost http://shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html 18 comments reddit.com
- Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html 2 comments reddit.com
- Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html 2 comments reddit.com
Linking pages
- Comfort with meaninglessness the key to good programmers | Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/12/comfort-with-meaning.html 182 comments
- GitLaw: GitHub for Laws and Legal Documents - a Tourniquet for American Liberty - Abe Voelker http://blog.abevoelker.com/gitlaw-github-for-laws-and-legal-documents-a-tourniquet-for-american-liberty/ 97 comments
- We must learn to love uncertainty and failure, say leading thinkers | Psychology | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/15/uncertainty-failure-edge-question 36 comments
- How To Build A Revolutionary Political Social Network • TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/24/blueprint-for-a-democracy-transforming-startup/ 15 comments
- Tool For Thought | by Steven Johnson | stevenberlinjohnson https://stevenberlinjohnson.com/tool-for-thought-b12c170fcc24?gi=c706b45f888b 14 comments
- A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/05/a-group-is-its-own-worst-enemy.html 8 comments
- A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000295.html 5 comments
- It's Clay Shirky's Internet, We Just Live In It http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001122.html 3 comments
- How the Internet has democratized democracy, to Bernie Sanders’s benefit - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/18/how-the-internet-has-democratized-democracy-to-bernie-sanderss-benefit/ 3 comments
- Meetup's Dead Simple User Testing | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2008/12/13/meetups-dead-simple.html 1 comment
- Disruptions: Gawker Wants to Encourage More Voices Online, but With Less Yelling - The New York Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/disruptions-gawker-wants-to-encourage-more-voices-online-but-with-less-yelling/?_r=0 1 comment
- Clay Shirky Debunks the WSJ's "Bloggers For Hire" Feature | Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/30/clay-shirky-debunks.html 1 comment
- aaronsw.com but as one markdown file · GitHub https://gist.github.com/chapmanjacobd/9a5d9eae393d059398b6b8b6369c0c71 1 comment
- A VC: All Software Should Be Social http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/03/all_software_sh.html 0 comments
- Gestalt Principles | Design Strategy | Tips & Tricks http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/gestalt-principles-applied-in-design/ 0 comments
- Tool For Thought | by Steven Johnson | stevenberlinjohnson https://stevenberlinjohnson.com/tool-for-thought-b12c170fcc24 0 comments
- Tool For Thought | by Steven Johnson | stevenberlinjohnson https://stevenberlinjohnson.com/tool-for-thought-b12c170fcc24?gi=d023bc143dcb 0 comments
- On Location Based Services. This post has been gather digital dust… | by Vidar Andersen | Medium https://medium.com/@blacktar/on-location-based-services-6092fbff40d0#.jsx34jxfo 0 comments
- How to Become a "Death of Newspapers" Blogger | HuffPost Entertainment http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-dailing/how-to-become-a-death-of_b_178807.html 0 comments
- SXSW 2011: The internet is over | SXSW Interactive | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/15/sxsw-2011-internet-online 0 comments