There is no news industry.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.

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

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