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Shirky's point was that professional critics aren't as smart as they think they are, that, in fact, in the age of big data,

Clay Shirky said recently, and put it brilliantly, as he tends to do-- oh, Clay-- that "There's no such thing as information overload.

Clay Shirky points out that we may even have the causality wrong.

Clay Shirky once stated that there is no such animal as information overload, there is only filter failure.

Clay Shirky, that great chronicler of everything networked, has captured the assumption that this challenges in such a beautiful way.

To paraphrase Clay Shirky at NYU, it's when technology becomes boring that it becomes interesting because then people believe that they can do things with it.

I'd sourly wondered if Shirky believed that critics were also stupid to consider Alice Munro a better writer than James Patterson.