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.

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

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

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

There is no news industry.

Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.