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Clay Shirky's Internet Writings

chokladbollen — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:42:00 GMT

Along with the book, I am launching a Here Comes Everybody blog, designed to both chronicle and extend the themes of the book. I'm delighted to finally have to book out, and to be able to begin blogging about it. In addition, this site collects many of my older writings, from which many of the themes of the book arose.

"above the clouds a berkeley view of cloud computing" pdf

chokladbollen — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:50:03 GMT

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Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet - Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source

chokladbollen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:26:55 GMT

NEC@Shirky.com -- Networks, Economics, and Culture NEC is a mix of essays written for the list, essays written for other outlets, drafts of ideas I’m pursuing, and reader commentary (re-printed only with permission, of course). The list will be very low volume, with an approximately twice-monthly frequency, and the contents will also be archived on shirky.com. <>

How to Virtualize Your Workforce - wikiHow

chokladbollen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:21:27 GMT

Enterprise Mobility: The ability for an enterprise to communicate with suppliers, partners, employees, assets, products, and customers irrespective of location. <>

The Long Tail - Why the future of business is selling less of more

chokladbollen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:29:43 GMT

Wired editor Anderson declares the death of "common culture"—and insists that it's for the best. Why don't we all watch the same TV shows, like we used to? Because not long ago, "we had fewer alternatives to compete for our screen attention," he writes. Smash hits have existed largely because of scarcity: with a finite number of bookstore shelves and theaters and Wal-Mart CD racks, "it's only sensible to fill them with the titles that will sell best." Today, Web sites and online retailers offer seemingly infinite inventory, and the result is the "shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards." These "countless niches" are market opportunities for those who cast a wide net and de-emphasize the

What cloud computing really means InfoWorld | News | April 07, 2008 | By Eric Knorr, Galen Gruman

chokladbollen — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:25:15 GMT

Cloud computing is all the rage. "It's become the phrase du jour," says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition. As a metaphor for the Internet, "the cloud" is a familiar cliché, but when combined with "computing," the meaning gets bigger and fuzzier. Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically virtual servers available over the Internet. Others go very broad, arguing anything you consume outside the firewall is "in the cloud," including conventional outsourcing.