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

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

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

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.

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.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

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