We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

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.

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

Curation comes up when search stops working.

Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.