Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.