For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.