The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

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.

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

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

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.