Clay Shirky

T is for thursday and technology news (with some business and media thrown in the mix)

Infothought: Google Transferable Stock Options (TSO's) or how Seth Finkelstein succeeds at redifining web 2.0 with Google's Transferable Stock Options tool as Citizen Lunchmeat.

Eat The Press | Craigslist Robs Food From the Mouths of Journalist's Babies | The Huffington Post or how media dinosaurs cry the money blues.

BetaNews | Yahoo: Lower Page Views Due to AJAX or, if it takes a giant like Yahoo! to discredit a site rankings based on pageviews, oh lord have mercy, that would be so fine by me indeed. AJAX is a thing of web wonder that more sites should have to do away with the non-contextual page refreshing that happens due to non-dynamic designs. BTW, if you don't understand what I am talking about, don't worry. This is a shout-out to the techies in the community.

TechCrunch UK Â» Blog Archive Â» Le Web3 the good, bad and ugly., or the seedy underbelly of Web 2.0 technology conferences.

SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check - Valleywag or how PR and marketing departments are selling the virtual lie that is Second Life. This is Clay Shirky at his best and I am definitely coming back to this article.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

— - H. P. Lovecraft