Clay Shirky Quotes

Before the internet, big publications were like hydrants in the desert. There were relatively few of them, we needed each one of them tremendously and they had control over what was delivered. Now they are like little streams flowing into a massive ocean.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

I think that content posted to Twitter is distributed to more platforms, services, sites, online and offline than any other services out there. Would love to see if someone can prove to me otherwise.

Initially, the television was seen as the devil incarnate by people that worked in the content industry. Now over time it turned out that that was one of the best things that ever could have happened to a content creator. I think the Internet is no different.

I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of 'new media' was that it would break the chokehold that old media companies had on public opinion.

With the communication internet, whole industries have been disrupted. You're in the publishing industry, you understand that. Before, we had newspapers, magazines - now you're on the web. I'm in book publishing. I don't have to tell you what's happened to us. Television has taken a hit. The music industry. But, thousands of new businesses have emerged on this new communication revolution platform. Not just Google, Facebook, and Twitter. There are thousands of operations. Businesses that are doing the platforms, the apps. They're mining the big data. They're creating the connections.

With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

I'm not sure when the New Media will replace the Old Media, but it will be sooner than later.

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.

It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

'Wag' is not some kind of documentary; it's just looking at the tools that are available. Now you've got more tools - you've got social media - and just post stories through all types of back channels that can get some traction.

'Podcasting House' is pivotal to the BBC's plan to scatter the seed of its various non-broadcast audio products beyond the narrow silos of the people who happen to listen to the programmes from which they arise.

Obama was the first American president to see technology as an engine to improve lives and accelerate society more quickly than any government body could.

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

I know most publishers probably don't let their authors write on Wattpad all the time, but mine are pretty open about it.

Social media is an evolving media. It changes every day.

There will be no cost drag from digital by 2020.

The digital world is one that has sort of a unique characteristic, where it's a place in which it's very easy for the value of content to fall.

Digital medium has a vaster reach, more than any other medium, as the content is watched globally in various countries at the same time.