When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

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

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

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

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.