Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.
Clay ShirkyTag: communication media internet organization profession
A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
Clay ShirkyTag: organization
[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 ShirkyTag: society technology internet organization
The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.
Clay ShirkyTag: internet organization
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 ShirkyTag: organization
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 ShirkyTag: economy organization
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
Clay ShirkyTag: society communication organization
[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.
Clay ShirkyTag: organization
Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
Clay ShirkyTag: organization
[R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participation.
Clay ShirkyTag: organization
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