April 2010
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Piracy and Shirky's Three Modes of Sharing
“A CD collection was like keeping the box that your Amazon stuff came in and taking it out all the time. You pulled out a piece of plastic and shot lasers at it.”
Clay Shirky (author of “Here Comes Everybody”) made his SXSW enterance by telling that he’d recently had to explain Napster to his too-young-to-remember students at NYU. He then went on to talk about...
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Public by Default, Private by Effort
Today at work I went through my notes from Danah Boyd’s danah boyd’s excellent “Privacy Is Not Dead” SXSW keynote. Her points were really useful for me in but they also touch on some very timely/relevant subjects for all of us:
- We communicate within three kinds of networks: Articulated, Behavioral and Personal. Google collapsed our behavioral networks with Buzz and...