It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing 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.

There is no news industry.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

[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.

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.