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Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches at New York University's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

He has written extensively about the internet since 1996, appearing in Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Wired. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks, for clients including Nokia, GBN, the U.S. Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation and the BBC.

Shirky has long supported crowdsourcing and collaborative efforts online, describing such collaborations using the phrase "the internet runs on love." His latest book is:

*Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008)

==Links==
*Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky
*Homepage: http://www.shirky.com

==Selected Posts==
*The group is its own worst enemy: http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
*Power Laws, Weblogs and Inequality: http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html

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