The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.

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.