Clay Shirky has shaped and chronicled the evolution of Web Services
since its inception. A popular speaker, consultant, and prolific writer,
Shirky focuses on the economic and social effects of the Internet. A
former columnist for Business 2.0, his writings have also appeared in
the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business
Review, and the O'Reilly Network.
Clay Shirky is a writer and consultant on Internet technologies,
focussing on the rise of decentralizing technologies such as
peer-to-peer and Web Services.
He is currently teaching a class entitled "Thinking About Networks"
at NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in the
fall of 2001, and writes extensively about the Internet for the O'Reilly
Network, where he has a regular column on OpenP2P.com. He is a co-author
of the upcoming O'Reilly research report on Peer-to-Peer, and is the
Senior Analyst for the forthcoming reports on Web Services and
Bioinformatics.
He has written for the original Business2.0 and FEED magazine, and
writes occasional pieces for the New York Times, the Wall Street
Journal, and the Harvard Business Review. His earlier work appeared in
Silicon Alley Reporter, word.com, Urban Desires, and net_worker
magazine.
Over the years he has worked as a writer, programmer, professor, and
consultant. He was Partner for Technology Strategy for The Accelerator
Group in 2000 and 2001, Professor of New Media at Hunter College from
1998-2000, and CTO of Site Specific, an NYC-based web shop, from 1995 to
1997.
Before there was a Web, he wrote and edited books for Ziff-Davis
Press, authoring a book on e-mail and another on network culture, and
editing the first book written on HTML. Before that he was a director
and lighting designer of avant-garde theater in New York City, working
with the Wooster Group and directing his own company, Hard Place
theater, which produced and performed "non-fiction theater", pieces
created in rehearsal from collages of found sources. He received his
Bachelor's Degree in Art from Yale University.
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www.shirky.com/bio.html; Zugriff: 29-Apr-2002.
E-Mail. clay@shirky.com.
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Clay Shirky has shaped and chronicled the evolution of Web Services
since its inception. A popular speaker, consultant, and prolific writer,
Shirky focuses on the economic and social effects of the Internet. A
former columnist for Business 2.0, his writings have also appeared in
the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business
Review, and the O'Reilly Network.
