Curation comes up when search stops working.

Curation comes up when search stops working.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

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.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

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.