A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

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