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

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

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

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

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