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

One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

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.

The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.