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

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

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 loss of control you fear is already in the past.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.