“ In craigslist’s gradual shift from ‘interesting if minor’ to ‘essential and transformative’, there is one possible answer to the question “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” The answer is: Nothing will work, but everything might. Now is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments, each of which will seem as minor at launch as craigslist did, as Wikipedia did, as octavo volumes did.
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— I’ve been digging through older articles about the death of print and the rise of new media for several papers that I’m writing, and Clay Shirky’s piece from March is just as impressive and fantastic as it was when I first read it.
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