Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

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

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.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

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.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.