Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

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

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.