Clay Shirky

PSFK Talks to Dennis Crowley of foursquare

Piers Fawkes | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York


Piers Fawkes

Crowley argues that a location based service needs to evolve to understand a user contextually -- to tap into your calendar, for example, and understand if you have a hole in your schedule.

Behemoth Blogs Taking Over The Web

The Atlantic | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology


Almost everyone weighing in agreed that blogging has become more corporate, more ossified, and increasingly indistinguishable from the mainstream medi...

Facebook's Digital Rascals and the Iran Election

Pablo Manriquez | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media


Pablo Manriquez

What was once a hopeful demand becomes a site-busting tsunami, a brute digital force veiled in Mousavi green.

Ted@State: A Trip To The Nation's Capitol

Adriana Dunn | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics


Adriana Dunn

The U.S. political system is no longer inaccessible and shrouded in secrecy. The prime example of this new attitude was yesterday's TED@State talk.

How to Become a "Death of Newspapers" Blogger

Paul Dailing | Posted 04.24.2009 | Comedy


Paul Dailing

The more you self-reference, pick feuds and talk about the failure of TimesSelect, the better you're doing. If you make it sound like you're the one who figured out newspapers are dying, you win.

Clay Shirky is Right: Newspapers' Death is Journalism's Loss

Tom Watson | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media


Tom Watson

The Internet has been a destructive force for many business models, but none threatens the basis of the republic as much as the digital knife busily sawing at the fraying Achilles tendon of American newspapers.