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  • Rick Snyder has declared his opposition, Mr. Shirkey said, "I'll carry it in and put it on my back so it doesn't have to touch his desk."

    Hoosiers Post-Game Collin Levy 2012

  • Clark Lake Republican Mike Shirkey told Michigan's MLive that the Indiana legislation heralded "winds of change" on the labor landscape and that it could catch on in Arizona and Minnesota, too.

    Hoosiers Post-Game Collin Levy 2012

  • Basically, Shirkey claims that the Internet has hastened the demise of not reading itself, but a certain type of reading and culture:

    July 2008 2008

  • Basically, Shirkey claims that the Internet has hastened the demise of not reading itself, but a certain type of reading and culture:

    Where Have You Gone, Leo Tolstoy? 2008

  • So asks Clay Shirkey in his last guest post at Boing Boing.

    The Future, Conan? « Gerry Canavan 2008

  • -- Clay Shirkey hated micropayments, but iTunes is just one example of how alive and well they are.

    Coffee Break: August 27 2007

  • From Clay Shirkey: “The most important collective use of the Internet is not the computers but the minds of users.”

    AAUW Meets Digital Now « AAUW Dialog 2009

  • Clay Shirkey | I think a bad thing is going to happen, right?

    Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

  • But SL or something like it will continue to be there, and will grow, and will likely morph into something much less literal and (as Shirkey puts it) “conceptually simple” and much more a hybrid of walking around in real space + walking around in virtual space + using more efficient interfaces when appropriate for all the things that the virtual/real merged layers present us.

    inkblurt · Second Life hype 2006

  • However, on the point of mandated player rights I can't help but think of that great quotable from Clay Shirkey "A Group is its Own Worst Enemy":

    The Point of No Return 2008

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