It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

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.

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.