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

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

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

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.

The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.