We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

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

The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.