<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/02a89406-ce26-4d91-addb-5cb130623554/087D2C5A-9351-408D-83A0-80B60C06BF4A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/business/media/31carr.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=clay+shirky&st=nyt&oref=slogin" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/business/media/31carr.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=clay+shirky&st=nyt&oref=slogin" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/business/media/31carr.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=clay+shirky&st=nyt&oref=slogin"> <P>“You were looking at a wasting asset no matter what floor you were on. The need to hold media that you consume — the physical purchase — is going away ,” said Clay Shirky, a few hours later. Mr. Shirky is an adjunct professor at <A title="More articles about New York University." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/new_york_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org">New York University</A>’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program and the author of a new book, “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.” </p> <P>The book suggests that the Web is not competition for traditional media, but a completely different system that empowers both groups and individuals, a place where choice is not only an option, but an imperative. </p> <P>In that world, the idea that someone would buy a physical object that contained a finite number of songs arbitrarily selected by someone else seems quaint. (Recognizing as much, <A title="More information about Sony Corporation" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/sony_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Sony</A> BMG and Warner both said last week that they are looking at subscription services.) </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/087D2C5A-9351-408D-83A0-80B60C06BF4A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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