Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.