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Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source

A few weeks ago, internet culture writers and link aggregators were sharing a voyeuristic site that randomly plays YouTube videos titled with the default file names that iPhones assign.

A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.

What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?

Every interoperable app becomes a super-app.

We know from experience and empirical analysis that open source and open standards projects drift into oligarchies that struggle to reform themselves and become ossified. Often, we can simply let them die and replace them with fresher alternatives, but when that's a costly option we can learn from theoretical models of institutional change to understand how to compost the oligarchy and regrow the project from within.

I recently found a backup of my browser bookmarks from 2009. …

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. (José Ortega y Gasset, “Notes on t…

Four young women—an artist who quit drawing, a retired idol wishing to prove her worth, a hotheaded V-tuber, and a mysterious composer—band together on the late-night streets of Shibuya to form an anonymous artist group called "JELEE." (Source: HIDIVE, edited)

Architecture has a long tradition of famous figures working well into their old age but sometimes it's best to know when to stop, writes Catherine Slessor.

We're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platform for alternatives. Three obvious beneficiaries of these, ahem, lapses of judgment are Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. What's particularly interesting about these three

Something has shifted at OpenAI.

Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.

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I draw stuff sometimes

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Where I saw colour and fun, they saw the reflection of something darker: a new generation of men who fear feminism, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff