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

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

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

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

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