[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

Clay Shirky

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Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

Clay Shirky

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The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.

Clay Shirky

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[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.

Clay Shirky

Tags: society technology



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The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

Clay Shirky

Tags: society profession



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A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

Clay Shirky

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The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.

Clay Shirky

Tags: internet organization



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[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.

Clay Shirky

Tags: society technology internet organization



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An organization will tend to grow only when the advantages that can be gotten from directing the work of additional employees are less than the transaction costs of managing them.

Clay Shirky

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For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a market.

Clay Shirky

Tags: economy organization



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