Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

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.

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

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."