Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

It's not a revolution if nobody loses

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.