books by Clay Shirky

books by Clay Shirky

books:

Clay Shirky

Planning for Web Services: Obstacles and Opportunities

Clay Shirky

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002

Worth its weight in gold - for decision makers
This e-book is aimed at CIOs, business and technical decision makers, senior architects and consultants. It is a 150-page PDF document that is well researched, well written description of the strengths and weaknesses of web services, the planning requirements and ...

The Internet by E-Mail
Clay Shirky

Ziff-Davis Press, 1994

A tremendous way for the millions who would like to tap the resources of the Internet, but can't access it in their areas, can't afford it, or simply don't want to learn complicated protocols, this book shows how E-Mail users of MCI Mail, Prodigy, CompuServe, America OnLine, college or business E-Mail accounts, and other similar services can tap ...

The New Normal
Michael Connor, Clay Shirky, ...

Independent Curators International/Artists Space, 2008

The New Normal brings together 15 recent artworks by Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camera, Hasan Elahi, Eyebeam R & D/Jonah Peretti & Michael Frumin, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Jill Magid, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Trevor Paglen, Corinna Schnitt, Thomson & Craighead, Sharif Waked and Angie Waller that use private ...

Next-Generation Online Cons
Clay Shirky

Harvard Business Review, 2008

Online business scams are rising because the Internet offers a perfect medium for con artists, who know that the money's in business. Companies can meet that threat with three defensive strategies.

2001 P2P Networking Overview: The Emergent P2P Platform of Presence, Identity, and Edge Resources (O'Reilly ...
Kelly Truelove, Clay Shirky, ...

O'Reilly, 2001

There's so much buzz about peer-to-peer these days, it's hard to separate facts from fiction. How do the peer-to-peer companies stack up? Which technologies are credible, and which will shake up our notions of how people use computers? More importantly, how do you see through the hype to the underlying architectures that yield opportunities for ...

Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

The MIT Press, 2007

dials down the hype
The free software or open source movement has, not surprisingly, garnered lots of free publicity. Encouraged by massive hyperventilating by its proponents. In contrast, this book steps back and offers a more dispassionate and nuanced analysis of the zeitgeist, for ...

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Clay Shirky

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

New challenges
i found this book absolutely fascinating - it poses for me a very interesting question: we know that the internet as caused big changes in society, but i wonder too if it hasn't also exposed some false assumptions about society. This is what Shirky seems to be saying: ...

Voices from the Net
Clay Shirky

Ziff-Davis Press, 1995

Voices From the Net looks at the Internet as a developing community, with a culture all its own. Clay Shirky listens to the diverse and plentiful identities that this cyberspace community has created and brings them together in this one-of-a-kind book, giving readers a brief history of the Net.