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Clay Shirky

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Birthplace: Columbia, Missouri, United States

Educated At: Yale University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Journalist

Total quotes: 1

“The normal experience of social software is failure. If you go into Yahoo groups and you map out the subscriptions, it is, unsurprisingly, a power law. There's a small number of highly populated groups, a moderate number of moderately populated groups, and this long, flat tail of failure. And the failure is inevitably more than 50% of the total mailing lists in any category. So it's not like a cake recipe. There's nothing you can do to make it come out right every time.”

— Clay Shirky, A Group Is It's Own Worst Enemy

Tagged: Facts, Insights, Probability, Quantity, Statistics, Traffic

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