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

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.

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

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.