[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

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.

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.