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

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.

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

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.

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.