The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

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.

Curation comes up when search stops working.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

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.