Clay Shirky Does Not Care About Breaking News, but He Does Read Twitter Every Morning

In a feature for The Atlantic‘s “Atlantic Wire,” Internet commentator, NYU professor and Here Comes Everybody author Clay Shirky offers a breakdown of his daily reading habits.

They basically go like this:

1) Twitter
2) Netvibes, an RSS reader
3) Tiger Beatdown, and sometimes Boing Boing and Crooked Timber
4) The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Atlantic
5) Books



Honorable mentions go to The Awl and pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty.

Shirky’s piece also contains a rather jarring comment from someone so passionate by the Internet and its possibilities:

In general, there’s no real breaking news that matters to me.

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