When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

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

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

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