Clay Shirky has perfected the art of the bold, meaningless epigram.

What is the author's objective? This is a lopsided rant against an internet 'spokesman'.

I had an opportunity to talk with Shirky; he is so not the arrogant person portrayed in the article. Before mechanical turk,cambrian house,crowdspring came by - he 'predicted' (for the lack of better word) CrowdSourcing.