See also: <span class="searchmatch">shirky</span> <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span> A surname. <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span> principle...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span> From shirk + -y. Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki <span class="searchmatch">shirky</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">shirky</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">shirky</span>) (colloquial) Disposed to shirk; tending to...
Named after the American technology writer Clay <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span>. the <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span> principle The idea that institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they...
From mega- + niche, coined by Clay <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span>. meganiche (plural meganiches) (Internet) A small niche on the World Wide Web that is highly specific and appeals...
Of a typeface, without serifs. Synonyms: serifless, nonserif 2008, Clay <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span>, Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus[1]: If you have some sans-serif...
September 27, Malcolm Gladwell, “Small Change”, in The New Yorker[1]: <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span> ends the story of the lost Sidekick by asking, portentously, “What happens...
typical Gen Xer, summed it up beautifully when he talked with me. 2010, Clay <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span>, Cognitive Surplus, page 121: Gen Xers were said to be lazy—“slackers” in...
unnecessary or both. 2008 March 21, Pat Kane, “Here Comes Everybody, by Clay <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span>. We-Think, by Charles Leadbeater”, in Independent: If people stopped believing...
magical power of the LazyWeb—and they may well get it. 2005 January 6, Clay <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span>, “Wikipedia: The nature of authority, and a LazyWeb request…”, in Corante[2]...
Secondhand Rose, Secondhand Clothes before he could decipher it: […] 2010, Clay <span class="searchmatch">Shirky</span>, Cognitive Surplus, page 121: Gen Xers were said to be lazy—“slackers” in...