[Publishing is] making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There’s a button that says “publish,” and when you press it, it’s done. In ye olden times of 1997, it was difficult and expensive to make things public, and it was easy and cheap to keep things private. Privacy was the default setting. We had a class of people called publishers because it took special professional skill to make words and images visible to the public. Now it doesn’t take professional skills. It doesn’t take any skills. It takes a Wordpress install.

Clay Shirky (via austinkleon)

This is more or less my view of the current media landscape. ‘Publishing’ used to make you special. Media brands are still trying to figure out how to prove they’ve earned the respect they used to get at default, when the whole world publishes, when publishing is part of even the smallest, least important self-expression.

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