It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

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.

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

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.