Clay Shirky's writings about Napster and peer-to-peer computing have appeared in the O'Reilly Network, Business 2.0, and FEED, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review.His writings are archived at shirky.com.

Prior to joining The Accelerator Group, he was Professor of New Media at Hunter College, where he taught in both the undergraduate and graduate programs, and worked as a writer, programmer, and consultant, working with News Corp, Barnes and Noble, iVillage, Ziff-Davis University, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Eisnor Interactive and others.