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

So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.