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- 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
- 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
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- Ontology is Overrated (2005) http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html 5 comments 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
- Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html 2 comments reddit.com